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Dealing with The Pensions Regulator

For example, has there been a type A event? If so, should there be a clearance application? Perhaps the Regulator is of the view that the sponsoring employer cannot sustain the scheme's funding requirements and the scheme should therefore be wound up and transferred to The Pension Protection Fund?

Pension Partners can advise on the following exercises:

your analysis of whether there has been a type A event
the practical and legal aspects of the future of the pension scheme and of the sponsoring employer

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Current News

Cohabitee wins right to pension

The Supreme Court has ruled that a nomination requirement relating to the payment of a survivor’s pension under a public sector pension scheme discriminated against cohabiting unmarried couples and should be disapplied.

Reversing Trustee Decisions

Trustees have on occasion relied on the “Hastings Bass” rule to unwind decisions that subsequently transpire to have unintended consequences. The scope to do so has been narrowed by the recent Supreme Court judgments in the jointly heard cases of Futter and another v HMRC and Pitt and another v HMRC.

EU Solvency Rules dropped

The European Commission has announced that it is dropping its plans for a new funding regime for pension schemes.

Pensions for Mortgages

Nick Clegg announces a new government idea to allow parents to use their pensions to help children onto the property ladder.