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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....
Background The DWP is consulting on draft regulations on bridging pensions whichintroduce a power for trustees of schemes which provide bridging pensions to amend their schemes’ rules by resolution to take account of the impact of...
Background We note that the Government’s intended policy on CARE schemes is to allow them to be used as qualifying schemes for the purposes of automatic enrolment, so long as they provide for the accrued rights to benefits under the...
Background The DWP’s consultation on equalising groups includes regulations and a possible equalisation method which propose changes to the Equality Act 2010 and the Pensions Act 2004 (the Acts) to remove the requirement for a...
Background Three options are proposed in on the DWP’s consultation on “Meeting future workplace pension challenges: improving transfers and dealing with small pension pots”: minor changes to the current system to make...
