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The Pension Protection Fund has admitted 17 more pension schemes, including one belonging to failed Christmas hamper firm Farepak.

The Pensions Advisory Service will not be scrapped as part of the government's cost cutting plan.

Schemes that have already mitigated risk are likely to be hit hard by the Pension Protection Fund's new levy calculation, Aon Hewitt warns.

UK - The aggregate funding position of the 6,653 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's 7800 index improved to a deficit of £20.4bn ($32bn) at the end of September.

The aggregate funding position of the 6,653 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's 7800 index improved to a deficit of £20.4bn at the end of September.

The Pension Protection Fund's proposed levy calculation reforms will bring "stability and predictability" to scheme payments, chief executive Alan Rubenstein says.

The Pension Protection Fund should stop using gilt yields to calculate the levy, Trigon Pensions says.

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The Pension Protection Fund is set to cut its levy demand by £120m to an estimated £600m.

Schemes are not de-risking quickly enough and should do more to reduce high levels of equity investment, the Pension Protection Fund says.