There are basically only three ways to reduce the costs of public sector pensions: raising contributions, increasing the pension age or cutting benefits.
Lord Hutton’s Independent Public Service Pensions Commission seems likely, on the evidence of last week’s interim report, to suggest a mix of all three possibilities in a bid to pare back the costs...
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