So far we have few details, and all that has been confirmed by the Department for Work and Pensions is that there will be a green paper – the most tentative form of government policy statement – before Christmas.
John Hutton’s report on public service pensions raises as many questions as it answers – his interim report is about the big picture, not the detail.
Today’s Public Sector Pensions Commission report is based on the politics of envy and a standard accounting trick to get some scary numbers.
The focus of today’s attacks are the “pay-as-you-go” (PAYG) public sector pensions run by central government (and not the Local Government scheme).
The new regulation that employer organisations most dislike are the new rules that will provide some protection for agency workers – but the Coalition lacks the scope to do this.
As the CBI makes another attempt to undermine public sector pensions hot on the heels on the 3 Chancellors, will anyone benefit from all these proposed cuts?
The Daily Mail likes to think it speaks for middle Britain, but too often it confuses the interests of the super-rich with those of middle income earners.
Every household in Britain faces a bill of £47,000 to meet the cost of public pension liabilities says the Mail. Except of course they won’t. It’s meaningless.
Anyone listening to the Today programme this morning, as discussion began of the Conservatives’ plan to raise the retirement age, could be in no doubt as to how much the media consensus has firmed up behind a virility contest amongtest
Tax relief on pensions costs more than £36 billion pounds a year according to TUC analysis of Treasury figures. This is heavily skewed towards the well-off – not simply because they pay more into a pension but because the relieftest
