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For sponsors in a multi-employer scheme, section 75 debt can be the bane of their operations. James Phillips explores whether DWP's plans to tackle this go far enough

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will amend legislation to allow contracted-out benefits to be transferred into a scheme which has never been contracted-out.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will not break even until 2026, at which point its debt to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will have hit £1.2bn.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has named the 13 people who will make up its pensions dashboard working group.

This week's biggest stories included coverage of the final day of the landmark British Airways case in the High Court, PP's definitive list of the top pension schemes in the UK, and the government revealing details on its 2017 auto-enrolment review.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will issue a green paper on the future of defined benefit (DB) schemes in early 2017, the pensions minister has confirmed.

Richard Harrington has said he has no objection to giving trustees the right to change indexation in rare cases, as long as members are protected against higher living costs.