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BP, Shell , Hewlett Packard – Parliament is watching the way you treat your pensioners.
Thanks to Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys (a BP heartland) for securing a 90 minute debate on private pensions. Despite an attempt late in the debate to hi-jack the debate by Therese Coffey, this was not … Continue reading
BP, Shell , Hewlett Packard – Parliament is watching the way you treat your pensioners.
Thanks to Alistair Carmichael, MP for the Shetlands and the Orkneys (a BP heartland) for securing a 90 minute debate on private pensions. Despite an attempt late in the debate to hi-jack the debate by Therese Coffey, this was not … Continue reading
DB pensioners – ask for more – now!
These young people are losing their jobs and making it clear they are aggrieved – on Tik-Tok. Older people don’t find it easy to get their voices heard when they are losing out. In this blog William McGrath argues that … Continue reading
The price members are paying to de-risk their employer’s balance sheet.
How did the Boots pension scheme change? It was bought out by Legal & General Why couldn’t Jon Swinson retire? Because Boots paid L&G £640m to buy-out their pension liabilities rather than pay pensions they’d promised but didn’t guarantee. Boots … Continue reading
What the BP pensioners say about our consumer duty
Please read this post and then consider, whether you are a trustee, adviser or funder to a UK pension scheme, how you treat your fish. The specifics of the BP action group’s campaign are simple. BP has a surplus … Continue reading
BP’s rotten core put self-interest above pensioner promises.
In an open letter to BP Board Chair Helge Lund, BP interim CEO Murray Auchincloss and BP Pension Trustees Chair Brendan Nelson. Alex Kent – a BP pensioner writes A dispute has arisen between BP and defined benefit BP pensioners. The previous bp … Continue reading
Laura Trott – focus on pensions and pensioners – not the “pensions industry”.
Laura Trott is the new Minister for Pensions with responsibility for pensioner benefits including the State Pension, private and occupational pensions, and oversight of arms-length bodies such as the Pensions Regulator pic.twitter.com/sJrwy9IQ2d — Department for Work and Pensions (@DWPgovuk) November … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Opperman, Laura Trott, Mel Stride, Pension Industry, pensioners, Pensions
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Will the cost of living crisis lead to a run on the (pension) pot?
Around the turn of the century I wrote my first Government pension consultation response., it was for Eagle Star and was supposed to have been signed off by someone in policy. It wasn’t and it went to Government including … Continue reading
Here’s to pensioners enjoying their pensions!
I’m on the Flying Scotsman to York (the Yorkshireman). My carriage is full of pensioners (including me), people thanking their lucky stars they’ve got the chance to ride behind this famous loco and sit in a beautiful compartment. And the … Continue reading
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Tagged Fun, Older People, pension playpen, pensioners, pensions
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Is auto-enrolment to become a stealth-tax on the poor?
The DWP has released a 200 page report into the state of the auto-enrolled nation. You can access it here. I’ve read the executive summary which is full of surprises and the report is clearly informing future strategy. The … Continue reading
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Tagged auto-enrolement, CDC, David Gauke, DWP, net-pay, pensioners, Tax
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