Pensions Ombudsman

Staff at the Pensions Ombudsman were forced to choose between remaining in their jobs or moving to the Department for Work and Pensions creating an "unsettling" environment, the supervisory body's annual report reveals.

A widow who was forced to give up her tennis club membership after receiving a lower pension than she was entitled to has been awarded £1,500 in compensation.

A code of practice on enhanced transfer value exercises due to be launched this summer will protect companies if employees complain to the Ombudsman following an exercise, says one of its authors.

Former employees of Lloyds TSB are challenging the company's decision to cap increases in pensionable pay in a dispute that could end up in the High Court.

The Pensions Ombudsman has ruled trustees of the Michelin Pensions Trust twice made improper decisions regarding who received a member's death benefit lump sum.

The Pensions Ombudsman has found in favour of Friends Life after a consumer had complained it misled him about the nature of its treatment of additional voluntary contributions.

Michael Bow's take on the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

The BBC Pension Scheme has been taken to the High Court over changes to member benefits it made last year, PP can reveal.

Michael Bow looks at the implications of the PPF's successful year.