NHS pensions - diagnosis and treatment
Doctors suffering from pension tax ailments should consider seeking financial advice rather than self-treating symptoms, writes Moira Warner, as she considers various ways to deal with the NHS pensions conundrum.
There's been a good deal of commentary on the maladies affecting NHS pensions of late ranging from administrative delays to data collection. But it's the impact of the tapered annual allowance on doctors...
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DB funding - November 2019: 'Temporary respite' for DB schemes as deficit falls £33bn
Every month, several firms issue trackers of the aggregate defined benefit (DB) scheme funding position. See here for the November 2019 estimates on the various measures…
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Pensions schemes are better funded now than this time last year, according to PwC’s annual Pension Scheme Funding Survey.
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Aggregate spending on defined benefit (DB) pensions has dropped from £19bn to £15bn in 12 months, according to Hymans Robertson.
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