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Following a consultation back in April 2008, the Board of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has finally outlined how it intends to equalise compensation between men and women, to address any inequalities arising from their entitlement to...
As this year’s Six Nations Championship gathers pace, the northern hemisphere rugby union fraternity is steadily getting to grips with “experimental law variations”. From 6 April 2009, a new pensions law variation takes...
Background We are writing in response to the consultation on the draft The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out)(Amendment) Regulations 2009 published on 2 September 2008. In this response: DC Schemes with GMP Underpin Transfers...
Amendments made to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 by the Pensions Act 2007, included a facility to allow contracted-out occupational pension schemes to convert members’ Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) into ordinary scheme benefits....
Sacker & Partners LLP has submitted a response to the consultation of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) on the “Requirement under section 171 of the Pensions Act 2004 to equalise compensation to allow for differences in the GMP...
It is clear from both the Government’s Green Paper published on 17 December 2002 and it “Action Plan” published on 11 June 2003, that it has been pondering what to do about simplifying guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPS)...
