Included in this issue: Supreme Court rules same sex partners entitled to equal survivor pension benefits for all service; IBM Court of Appeal ruling on Employer's power to make pension changes and more...
- Supreme Court rules same sex partners entitled to equal survivor pension benefits for all service
- IBM Court of Appeal ruling on Employer's power to make pension changes
- Court of Appeal gives key judgment in salary capping case of Bradbury v BBC
- Supreme Court gives key ruling on pension sharing on divorce under Scots law
- Court of Appeal holds calculating ill-health pension on part-time salary not disability discrimination
- New Money Laundering Regulations: implications for pension schemes not clear
- Regulations ban early exit charges and extend ban on member-borne commission
- Pensions Regulator publishes consultation response on professional trustee description and monetary penalties policy
- Ombudsman upholds Trustees' refusal to provide more than one binding transfer value quote per year
- Complaint upheld where scheme refused to transfer bankrupt member's fund
- Pensions Ombudsman upholds complaint where transfer made to scheme that was no longer a QROPS
- Member not required to re-pay overpayments where she had been assured benefits were correct
- Ombudsman upholds complaint where Trustees treated review of ill-health pension as new decision
- Consultation response on pension scams: changes to transfer rights proposed
- Government to publish White Paper on DB pensions later this year
- Changes to state pension age
- Reduction in money purchase annual allowance to go ahead for current tax year
- Lifetime allowance to increase in line with CPI inflation from April 2018
- TPAS, Pension Wise and Money Advice Service to merge
- Consultation response re valuing benefits with GARs for purposes of the advice requirement
- Pension surplus – changes to IFRIC 14 accounting standard
