Sentences with phrase «final salary pensions»

An end to final salary pension schemes in the public sector?

Most public sector workers including MPs, teachers and civil servants receive final salary pensions from age 60, so tend to retire earlier.

This generation, in his view, took too much during the good times, reaping the benefits of final salary pension schemes and free university education while squandering what wealth they had and failing to save, saddling younger generations with the public debt.

Lord Hutton also recommended an end to generous final salary pension schemes - to be replaced with payments based on average lifetime earnings.

«A rush for safe - haven bonds around the world has sent the yields on sovereign bonds through the floor — meaning a fall in the regular income that pension funds use to pay their retirees their defined benefits, sometimes known as final salary pensions.

Clegg and Cameron have called for final salary pensions covering public sector workers to be reviewed at the earliest opportunity.

Pensioners in final salary pension schemes could find their benefits cut under new plans put forward by the government on Monday.

The government and its agencies must learn lessons from the Carillion collapse — and quickly — to address the inherent weaknesses of many UK final salary pension schemes, affirms deVere Group.

Coupled with recent falls in the stock market, this has decimated private provision in Britain, with final salary pension schemes almost disappearing.

Family lawyers advising on divorce proceedings involving final salary pension benefits should base their calculations on new rules published in the Occupational Pension Scheme Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/1979), accountancy firm Smith and Williamson advises.

Those relatively few workers who still have a good final salary pension will be hit by a large National Insurance rise, equivalent to about one and a half pence on the basic rate of tax.

@Monevator — not a criticism but at this moment in time I've no idea what my expenses are as I'm trying to live life to the full whilst still working full time having a reasonable final salary pension and having some savings.

Lord Hutton did however insist that any change should protect the lowest - paid workers and suggested replacing final salary pension schemes with schemes based on average lifetime earnings.

People retiring from the wealth creating sector with inadequate, money purchase pensions — or in fact none at all from their failed employers — are not going to watch happily as folk from the public sector, whose wages they have paid over many years, retire on guaranteed index - linked final salary pensions.

They are also angry at plans by the company to close the main final salary pension scheme to future accrual, reducing the total pay package of each affected employee by typically around 20 per cent.

The timing is absolutely right now for the unveiling of an election pledge to legislate to scrap any further MP and Ministerial final salary pension accrual from the date of the next election and to replace it with money purchase pensions with a decent employer contribution for all future service.

We have some other income from bits and pieces of final salary pension schemes, and will have state pensions eventually, but right now we need to start taking an income from a lump sum invested in S&S.

Wealth is increasingly concentrated among older people, particularly in countries where housing booms have left those in their fifties, sixties and seventies sitting on huge cash piles, to which can be added generous final salary pensions.

The deVere CEO concludes: «Lessons from the Carillion collapse must be learned — and quickly — to address the inherent weaknesses of many UK final salary pension schemes.»

• He said that he would take action to stop companies cheating employees by using bribes to persuade them to opt out of final salary pension schemes.

And before the 2015 Christmas break, these Eurocrats, who all enjoy a final salary pension, just gave themselves a 2.4 percent raise.

Interesting, I know of at least one person whose stubborn refusal to abandon equities in retirement saved his tail as the value of his final salary pension was hammered by twenty - odd years of inflation eroding its value.

Lord Hutton has recommended the scrapping of final salary pensions, in a widely - expected move likely to trigger anger among public sector workers.

The proposed changes to the TPS include a move from a final salary pension to a career average pension scheme, a phased increase to teachers» Normal Pension Age in line with changes to the State Pension Age and a rebalancing of employee and employer contributions.

The salary is # 29,498 to # 32,063 per annum, along with membership of a final salary pension scheme and access to subsidised transport.

Mr Cameron also said he was «very attracted» to the taskforce's recommendation that MPs» final salary pension scheme close to new entrants.

Unions say that changes to the workers» final salary pension scheme, which have been proposed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), could see pensions slashed by thousands of pounds.

The move was also blamed for the collapse of some final salary pension schemes, although ministers say the stock market crash, end of the dotcom boom and poor pension saving are to blame.

«Jobs are at threat and we know the final salary pension will go next year under the new owners,» he said.

Up to 125,000 people are thought to have lost significant amounts of their savings between April 1997 and May 2004, after their employers wound up their final salary pension schemes - usually as a result of companies going bust.

No doubt the fist benefit to go will be the final salary pension scheme, after all its only politicans who should have their pension system bailed out by the tax payer, good lord the peasants getting their pension system bailed out ny the tax payer, what ever next.

Members of the Communication Workers Union will strike for five days this week, including Christmas Eve, in protest at job losses, the closure of a final salary pension scheme and the franchising of Crown Post Offices.

Few will be surprised by the huge majorities who back the permanent levy on bank profits or the ending of the final salary pension scheme for MPs.

Spence & Partners specialises in advising on and managing defined contribution and final salary pension schemes.

The switch from a final salary pension scheme to a Career Average scheme is the most fundamental change.

Graduates starting work now on average earnings will never have the opportunity of a final salary pension scheme (unless they work in the public sector), will have to save for many years for their first property deposit whilst at the same time paying an additional tax of 9 % of everything they earn in excess of # 21,000 in a 30 - year project to repay their student financing.

So for now, you should count yourself lucky that you have a career average pension; it may not be as good as the final salary pension your boss is getting, but it's one better than the straightforward DC scheme most of your friends have.

No matter what you think of the continued existence (barely) of «gold plated» final salary pension schemes in the public sector, having the rug pulled from under a key plank of your career choice's remuneration scheme is just cause for complaint.

Spence & Partners specialises in advising on and managing defined contribution and final salary pension schemes.

«For over a year now we have been in extensive talks with employees in the UK with regard to the future of the final salary pension scheme.

Bradbury v BBC (ongoing)-- acting for the BBC before the Pensions Ombudsman, High Court and Court of Appeal in respect of a claim concerning a cap on pensionable salary in a final salary pension scheme

«However, the reality is that the final salary pension promise was, in times gone by, easy to make, but it is harder to keep in today's world.

Spence & Partners specialises in advising on and managing defined contribution and final salary pension schemes.