Civil service pensions
Retirement Planner's round up of the week's top pension stories.
Civil servants in the Prospect union have overwhelmingly voted to accept the government’s changes to public sector pensions.
Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are expected to join a 24-hour strike on Thursday against proposed pension changes.
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Thousands of former public sector workers have retired on pensions worth about £50,000 a year, twice the average UK age, a report from the Intergenerational Foundation has said.
The Queen's Speech will confirm the government's intention to push ahead with public sector pension reform despite opposition from major unions.
Teachers and college lecturers in London are staging strike action today over changes to their pensions.
The government has published its final proposals for public sector pension reform, but several unions have already deemed the offer unacceptable.
Cabinet Office minister and paymaster general Francis Maude yesterday claimed unions have no appetite for industrial action over pension reforms.
Members of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme (AFPS) have been underpaid by around £300 per year each.
Public sector workers will have to pay up to £3,000 a year more into their pensions to keep their "gold-plated" retirement schemes, ministers are set to announce.
Tomorrow, thousands of public sector workers will strike over proposed reforms to their pensions. But just how do they compare to private sector provision?
Public sector pensions have been run like an "unstable Ponzi scheme" which threatens to impoverish future generations, according to an independent report.
Bill Midgley, president of the British Chamber of Commerce , has come out in defence of the Government's agenda regarding UK civil service pensions.
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