NHS wastes £5m on gold-plated pensions for dead people
Bungling NHS staff have sent £5.6m of taxpayers’ money to deceased pensioners that they cannot recover, new figures reveal. A ...
The public sector workers doomed to pensions purgatory
The Government spends £54bn a year on more than three million gold-plated public sector pensions. They offer inflation-linked ...
NHS retirees with six-figure pensions double in a year
The number of retired NHS workers receiving pensions paying £100,000 has more than doubled in a year. Nearly 2,000 former ...
‘I’m an NHS doctor with £180k to spare – how can I boost my gold-plated pension?’
The 57-year-old doctor from Surrey is an avid investor, but has sold every penny of his portfolio in anticipation of a ...
NHS pension benefits worth thousands from the age of 60 could disappear for 143,632
Changes to how NHS pensions work were rolled out last year, making hundreds of thousands of healthcare staff eligible to ...
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My pension hasn't grown much. Has it been de-risked - and what can I do?
Yes, you have been de-risked, but this has happened very early on – 18 years before you retire, in fact. This is an ...
Yahoo Finance25 天
‘I’m never working for the NHS again – I owe £7,500 in tax after one shift’
It was simple for people in defined contribution pensions to avoid breaching the allowance, as the calculation was based purely on how much money was paid in each year. For NHS pensions ...
GP magazine12 个月
NHS pension contribution overhaul to go ahead from April
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The Mirror28 天
Evil GP to lose NHS pension after poisoning mum's boyfriend with fake 'Covid vaccine'
The evil GP who injected his mum's partner with a deadly poison while disguised as a Covid nurse is set to lose his £1m NHS pension. Thomas Kwan, 52, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 31 ...
GP magazine5 年
Government promises 'most flexible NHS pensions ever' in bid to solve workforce crisis
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Huge number of DWP disability and sickness benefit claimants stuck on NHS waiting lists
Commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, the analysis shows how crucial tackling the record backlog in the ...
MoneyWeek5 年
The pensions annual allowance debacle spreads beyond the NHS
I've written here several times about the disaster built into NHS pensions (see here and here, for example). Thanks to the current annual allowance and taper system (see below for a brief ...