Pensions

New and updated

• Occupational pensions and employment law

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that Regulations to extend civil partnerships to couples not of the same sex in England and Wales will come into force on 2 December 2019, and to include references to the position in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• Mixed-sex civil partnerships are introduced in England and Wales

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 enable mixed-sex couples in England and Wales to form civil partnerships.

• Consultation on simplifying annual benefit statements for workplace pensions

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on the options for improving the content and presentation of information provided to members through their annual workplace pension benefit statements.

• New pensions dashboard service introduced

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Individuals can see information about their pension by accessing an online service.

• Workplace pensions

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect that the Pension Schemes Bill will not progress at present as Parliament has been dissolved for the general election.

• Consultation into NHS pensions flexibility launched

  Date:

  12 September 2019

  Type:

  News

  A new consultation into NHS pension changes designed to enable senior clinicians to work additional shifts without facing prohibitive tax bills has been launched.

• Government admits defeat in police pensions legal battle

  Date:

  6 August 2019

  Type:

  News

  The government has conceded defeat over its attempt to alter police pensions in 2015, acknowledging that moving police officers to new police pension schemes, based on their age, is discriminatory.

• Never mind the gender pay gap: here's the gender pensions gap

  Date:

  26 July 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  There have been exhaustive discussions on the gender pay gap, but what about the huge chasm between women's pension wealth and what men are able to accumulate for retirement? Nikki Thompson explains.

• Boris Johnson pledges to 'fix' pension tax allowance rules

  Date:

  10 July 2019

  Type:

  News

  Tory leadership front runner Boris Johnson has vowed to "fix" the pension rules that have led to NHS consultants finding they are better off if they work fewer hours.

• Landmark public sector pension ruling confirmed

  Date:

  28 June 2019

  Type:

  News

  In a decision that will have implications across the public sector, the government has been denied leave to appeal a landmark ruling that pension reforms discriminated against younger workers.