Welcome to the pensions microsite

This microsite includes an a-z of pensions issues, practical pensions guides, current hot topics, and updates on recent pensions developments.

If you have any questions about topics covered on this microsite, or if you’d like to suggest a topic that we should cover in future, please contact us.
 

A-Z of pensions issues:   A-I   J-R   S-Z

Pensions guides

• Personal accounts & automatic enrolment – an overview - read more
  (November 2009)
• Internal dispute-resolution procedures - read more
  (January 2010)
• “Moral hazard” rules and the clearance procedure - read more
  (January 2010)
• Member-nominated trustee arrangements - read more
  (January 2010)
• The scheme-specific funding regime - read more
  (January 2010)
• Section 75 debt regime - read more
  (January 2010)
• Notifiable events under the Pensions Act 2004 - read more
  (June 2009)
• Age discrimination and pensions - read more
  (17 November 2008)
• Introduction to UK pension schemes for new trustees - read more
  (17 November 2008)

Pensions hot topics

• Full implementation of auto-enrolment is delayed until 2017 - read more
• Pre-Budget Report: impact on high earners - read more
• High Court considers ability of employees to waive pension entitlements  - read more
• Failure to equalise pension benefits or failure to administer the scheme's rules: have you checked your scheme? - read more
• Pension scheme buy-outs look good to employers... but what does everybody else think? - read more

Recent pensions developments

• Emergency Budget: radical changes to high earner proposals - read more
  (23 June 2010)
• Court of appeal clarifies position on section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995: compromise agreements which cover pensions terms are not "surrenders" of pension rights - read more
  (22 June 2010)
• A round-up of pension law developments: April 2010 - read more
  (6 May 2010)
• A round-up of pension law developments: February/March 2010 - read more (17 March 2010)
• A round-up of pension law developments: February 2010 - read more
  (5 February 2010)
• A round-up of pension law developments: December 2009 - read more
  (22 December 2009)
• A round-up of pension law developments: November 2009 - read more
  (4 November 2009)
• A round-up of pension law developments: October 2009 - read more
  (21 October 2009)

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