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Reform UK or Steve Webb – who’s truth would you believe on pensions?

Steve Webb is commenting here on news that I include below but you can read from this link. Here is the naughtiness of Reform exposed by a decent man who did a good job of managing this country’s pensions from … Continue reading

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Sadly – many nurses can’t afford their “gold-plated” pensions.

This article was originally published in 2022 and I thought at a time when many of us will see nurses, we need to consider their predicaments with pensions. Recently, Jeremy Hunt has argued that public pensions aren’t affordable, I don’t … Continue reading

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Sadly – many nurses can’t afford their “gold-plated” pensions.

“The Government can get people back to work – and also reduce taxpayer costs – by allowing all public sector workers to choose higher pay today, in exchange for a lower DB pension in retirement” – John Ralfe This is … Continue reading

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Sadly – many nurses can’t afford their “gold-plated” pensions.

“The Government can get people back to work – and also reduce taxpayer costs – by allowing all public sector workers to choose higher pay today, in exchange for a lower DB pension in retirement” – John Ralfe This is … Continue reading

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Five moral reasons I didn’t take my DB transfer.

Jo Cumbo (my journalist of the year) has finished 2016 with a fascinating article on what (her sub editor?) describes as “a stampede to cash in gold-plated final salary schemes“. I felt angry – a little bit “dirt” when I’d … Continue reading

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