Author: Neil Barton

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Teachers’ Pension Scheme – latest developments

In our last blog relating to the participation of independent schools within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), we reported that we were aware of many schools who were considering an exit due to the 40% plus i...

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Teachers’ Pension Scheme – lessons learned in the first half of 2019

Since our last blog posting back in March, things have moved on considerably with regard to the participation of independent schools within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS). We have had meetings with a ...

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Teachers’ Pension Scheme – to leave or not to leave?

We have recently had a number of interesting conversations with independent schools in light of the forthcoming (September 2019) 40% increase to employer contributions for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS). Ma...

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Teachers’ Pension Scheme employer contribution increase – a step too far for the independent education sector?

Along with almost every school in the state sponsored ‘maintained’ sector, many independent schools also offer teaching staff membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS). The TPS is a government created (u...

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No big surprises from the Party Season

As the party conference season has now concluded for another year we’ve rounded up the main headlines from a pension perspective Liberal Democrats: During the next general election campaign, the Lib Dems intend...

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Schemes, trustees and employers need urgent clarification of ECJ ruling

In what is being hailed as a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has directed that a cap on pension payments made by The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is unlawful. When an employer is declared ...

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Welcome to the House of not so much Fun

The celebrations regarding Mike Ashley’s decision to save department store group House of Fraser have been few and far between.  In fact, the decision by the Sports Direct boss to purchase the stores has given ...

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Dashed Hopes

Dashed hopes It is well known that thousands of people have many millions of pounds sat in lost, misplaced and unclaimed pension pots.  Therefore, it seems a bit daft that what many of us in the pensions indust...

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Is there a pension storm on the way?

Pensioners who are in receipt of an income from a defined benefit pension scheme could find that they have been overpaid by their occupational scheme, and also related to this that their state pension income is...