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...These “buyouts” — of pension plans and the assets backing them — are regarded as the gold standard for safeguarding benefits....
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...workers, who tend to have defined benefit plans, cite pensions as a key reason they stay on the job....
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...The contrast between the defined contribution schemes of private companies and the inflation-linked defined benefit schemes of the public sector has become increasingly stark....
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...This only leaves the issue of how to persuade the civil service and others to forego their current benefit structure to join the majority of private sector employees in defined contribution arrangements....
...Giving evidence to a parliamentary committee Paul Maynard, pensions minister, said more than half of the UK’s 5000 corporate defined benefit plans were now fully funded....
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...The government is consulting on proposals to enable employers to use surplus funds built up in defined benefit plans. These schemes currently serve around 10mn members....
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...The Pension Protection Fund announced on Thursday that the levy it collects from defined benefit schemes, which are backed by private-sector businesses, will halve in 2024/25 to £100mn — the lowest on record...
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