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Council tax frozen

Tax and benefit changes take effect in the UK on Good Friday

Tax changes introduced by the UK Chancellor George Osborne will take effect on Friday and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls claimed today that the changes will leave the average family worse off by GBP511 per year. This figure comes from a …

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The rise of the pension trustee service

It's really tough being a pension trustee these days, with ever-changing legislation and regulation adding to a mounting burden of responsibility unrecognisable just a handful of years ago.

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State pension age to rise to 67

The chancellor has revealed that millions of Britons in their forties and early fifties will be forced to work up to a year longer in order to receive

Police

Former police officers sue their own force

FORMER police officers - forced to retire due to the governments cuts - are suing their force.   Twenty former police officers have launched claims against West Midlands Police after

Should the lay trustee be compensated like the independent trustee?

The role of the trustee has changed dramatically in recent years, and with the new government reforms on pensions set to be put into effect as of 2012,

Pension

Employers, are you switched on to your staging date?

Are you a 'switched on' employer, ready for the new pension regulations when they come into force next year? If you are, then good for you. Give yourself

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Occupational pension payments ‘fall to level not seen since 1950s’

The number of people putting money into an occupational pension scheme for their retirement has fallen to a level not seen since the mid-1950s, research from

Pension Scheme Insolvency

Pension Protection Fund: How Does it Work?

The Pension Protection Fund was created with the aim of addressing the problem of pension scheme insolvency. It was born through government legislation that aims

Independent Trustees Called In to Aid Struggling Pension Schemes

The pensions crisis in the UK has been rumbling for a number of years, and recent reports reveal that the shortfall is wider than initially anticipated. A combination of

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