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A quarter of a million NHS staff who opted out of its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme only have life cover of £60,000 in the event of Covid-related death, and some non-front...

The Pensions Regulator has issued its annual funding statement, urging trustees and employers to work together to manage the immediate financial problems caused by the Covid-19 lockdown. However TPR stresses that there...

Pension withdrawals incurred a record £167m of emergency tax payments to HMRC in 2019/20, up from just over £90m in 2015/16, according to figures released today. HMRC data published today shows £166,619,969...

More than £35bn has been withdrawn from pensions since freedoms were in 2015 with £2.5bn withdrawn in Q1 2020, up 19 per cent on the same period last year. The £2.5bn represents...

Grid is forming a new Workplace Public Policy Committee with the aim of promoting workplace health and wellbeing matters to government. The committee has been set up in response to the group risk sector...

WPA, the not-for-profit healthcare provider, has announced a rebate of approximately 40 per cent of monthly premiums for SME and retail customers during the coronavirus lockdown. The premium rebate will be rounded...

Pension schemes are being urged to send DB members looking to transfer a Covid-19 transfer warning letter highlighting the risks of doing so during the pandemic, following new guidance from the regulator...

Scottish Widows has appointed Stuart Reid to a newly-created role of head of business development, to lead growth in its contract based and master trust schemes. He joins the insurer on 1st...

Unum is giving free access to its digital Help@hand health and wellbeing service during Coronavirus to firms with less than 100 employees. Between 1st May and 31st July, 2020 small firms that have a...

Tackling the epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases has been a key aim for wellbeing programmes for many years. Now we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, other health and wellbeing interventions...