Jane Slatter

In a recent House of Commons debate on private pensions schemes, Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys, criticised some major employers in the UK for failing to pay their pensioners discretionary inflationary increases for their pre-1997 service. Carmichael, whose constituency includes companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon, delivered an eloquent and […]

Dear XXXXXX                   Date  MP for XXXXXXXXXXXXX I write to seek your support for our campaign to achieve fair annual cost of living increases for elderly pensioners whose incomes are hugely impacted by inflation. These are the thousands of members of UK defined benefit (DB) company pension schemes

From: Ministerial Correspondence, Caxton House, Tothill Street, LONDON SW1H 9DA www.dwp.gov.uk  ministers@dwp.gov.uk  Our Ref: TO2024/12322 19 February 2024 Dear Ms Dean, Thank you for your email of 9 February to the Minister for Pensions about the Reuters Pension Scheme. Government Ministers receive a large volume of correspondence and they are unable to reply personally on

Sharp-eyed pensioners were concerned when they spotted that Reuters Pension Fund assets had dropped by more than a billion pounds between 2021 and 2022. The latest accounts show a 39% drop in assets from 2.8 billion pounds to 1.7 billion. This information is from the Reuters Pension Fund Website – Members Information – Questions and

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Divisions in the pensions industry over whom should benefit from DB pension schemes surpluses became apparent during a webinar organised by consultants LCP,  the latter said in a statement. By a narrow margin, the largest group of the 200 participants (37.5%) felt  companies who had set up a scheme in the first place and provided most

Proposals for reforming Defined Benefit pension schemes, set out by the Chancellor in his July Mansion House speech could see DB FTSE 350 schemes access up to £50 billion, an analysis by Barnett Waddingham suggests. It notes that the DWP has called for evidence that covers various alternative approaches to DB scheme funding. “One of