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Background The joint HMT/ HMRC consultation on Individual Protection from the Lifetime Allowance Charge seeks to assist those with pension savings in excess of the new LTA when it reduces to £1.25m on 6 April 2014. IP14 will enable...
Background The DWP’s consultation and draft regulations seek to address defective drafting in The Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010, which, if adopted, will amend...
Background The present Consultation (Technical Changes to Automatic Enrolment) seeks views on proposals for a number of practical and technical improvements to the rules governing auto-enrolment, based on feedback and experience gained in...
Background The DWP’s consultation on The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2013 (the Regulations) seeks to: streamline the regulations on disclosure, harmonising the terminology used...
Background TPR consultation on “Regulating work-based defined contribution pension schemes” sets out a new framework that TPR intends to use to help it regulate the governance and administration of DC schemes. This framework...
Background The consultation by TPR on “Maintaining contributions” (the Consultation), includes revised codes of practice on the late payment of contributions to occupational DC and personal pension schemes (TPR codes 5 and 6),...
Background The Call for Evidence by the DWP on “Pensions and Growth” asks whether there is a need for: legislation to explicitly allow the ‘smoothing’ of asset values and liabilities in funding valuations (i.e....
