Sentences with phrase «uprating pensions»

BT brought an action to seek a declaration that the wording in a set of rules for its pension scheme would allow it to move away from RPI as the measure for uprating pensions.

The court held that RPI had not become inappropriate for the purposes of uprating pensions under the BT pension scheme.

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The government must review pensions and benefits each year against increases in prices and uprate them by at least the same percentage.

12.08 Cameron promises says it will be uprated by RPI, and that # 1 billion will be put into pensions over the Parliament.

He said the «triple lock» on state pensions, which guarantees they are uprated by a certain level, could be an «early casualty» of a Brexit.

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Asked to explain the apparent lack of a costing, a Treasury spokesman told FactCheck that a regulatory impact assessment published by the government on 29 November 2006 along with the Pensions Bill estimated the cost of uprating the basic state pension in line with earnings.

Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, debates the controversial welfare benefits uprating bill in the House of Commons

The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an impact assessment for the welfare benefits uprating bill.

Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will speak for Labour in the welfare benefits uprating bill debate.

The work and pensions secretary released the figures ahead of next week's upratings bill is debated in the Commons, when MPs will vote on the government's plans to put the brakes on future benefits increases.

They are more akin to benefits, and indeed there is a direct link between how public sector pensions and benefits are uprated with inflation, that people become entitled to by working in the public sector than the sort of claim someone has on a private sector pension fund.

But I would point out that pensioners have been expensively shielded against inflation by the so - called «triple lock», this government's guarantee that pensions would be measured against three different indicators each year, and uprated by whichever is the highest.

In June 2010, separate to the Hutton commission, the government changed the inflation measure used to uprate public service pensions.

From April 2011, public service pensions are uprated in line with changes in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), instead of the Retail Prices Index (RPI) as had been the previous policy.