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The government published its Pensions Bill today, covering proposed changes to auto-enrolment.

Contribution rates for the Merseyside Pension Fund will increase to 18.1% after the scheme's triennial valuation revealed a 2 percentage point drop in funding levels.

Changes to the introduction of auto-enrolment will be deregulatory and reduce the burden on employers, pensions minister Steve Webb told MPs.

Paul Sweeting on the issues arising from the CPI switch

Pension Action Group members have begun a letter writing campaign over the RPI/CPI switch which will reduce their Financial Assistance Scheme payments.

Pension Action Group members have begun a letter writing campaign over the RPI/CPI switch which will reduce their Financial Assistance Scheme payments.

Deficits for defined benefit pension schemes fell in 2010 but schemes still have some way to go to reach the funding levels of 2008, latest figures show.

In the second part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at the 10 most popular stories of the year.

In the first part of our run-down of the top 20 most read Professional Pensions Online news articles in 2010, we look at those in eleventh to twentieth place.

UK - A pensioners' association is challenging BAE Systems' decision to switch their pension indexation from RPI to CPI.