pc, excluding the impact of the Royal
Mail pension assets.
The complication is the Royal
Mail pensions assets, however.
Not exact matches
But the Conservatives claimed the government was planning to «snatch» Royal
Mail's
pension funds
assets and assume its liability, effectively converting the
pension scheme from a funded scheme into a pay - as - you - go scheme.
Royal
Mail's
pension fund has
assets of # 21.9 billion and liabilities of # 25.3 billion, giving a net deficit of # 3.4 billion.
While it has received # 28.8 billion of
assets from the
pension fund, it has also been left with # 37.4 billion of liabilities, which are the
pension promises made to Royal
Mail's workers.
Royal
Mail's
pension scheme
assets total around # 26 billion.