John Hutton

Treasury plans to increase public sector employee pension contributions by 3% could destroy the Local Government Pension Scheme, the London Pensions Fund Authority warns.

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Public sector final salary schemes should be scrapped and replaced with a career average alternative, the National Association of Pensions Funds says.

Public sector pension schemes should move to a career average revalued earnings system capped at pay of £75,000, the London Pensions Fund Authority says.

Lord Hutton will today end his call for evidence to the public sector pensions inquiry after the close of a seven-week consultation.

Raising worker contribution rates for local government pension schemes would stoke a wave of industrial action and withdrawals from schemes, unions warn.

Private sector pension provision in the UK has gradually been "ratcheted down" to inadequate levels and should not be repeated in public sector reforms, Lord Hutton says.

The government would be "ill advised" to alter the discount rate to calculate the amount public sector employees pay into unfunded pension schemes, the Trades Union Congress says.

Now we've had time to digest the findings of the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission's interim report, Laura Blows finds out what the industry makes of its suggestions to date