by Gail Higgins | Dec 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Government has confirmed the following figures, relating to automatic enrolment obligations, for the 2017/18 tax year: £10,000 for the automatic enrolment earnings trigger, unchanged from 2016/17, £5,876 for the lower limit of the qualifying earnings band, equal...
by Gail Higgins | Dec 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Government is consulting on: the changes contained in the draft Occupational Pension Schemes and Social Security (Schemes that were Contracted-out and Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017, secondary legislation which has been...
by Gail Higgins | Nov 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Summary The Defined Benefit (DB) Taskforce has released its interim report. Its key findings are: DB schemes matter to the economy – £1.5 trillion invested through DB schemes supports the UK economy through investment in businesses and infrastructure and by...
by Gail Higgins | Oct 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Government has announced that plans for creating a secondary annuity market with effect from April 2017, have been scrapped. Such a market would have allowed individuals who have bought annuities under Defined Contribution schemes to sell those annuities, either...
by Gail Higgins | Oct 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Summary John Cridland has published his interim report on the review of State Pension Age (SPA). The scope of the review is limited to those reaching SPA after April 2028. Amongst other issues, the review considers the question of whether a universal SPA remains...
