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Blog
Walk the line: between GMP rectification and benefit audit
Stealing a lyric from the man in black, our specialist GMP team is encouraging trustees to walk the line between GMP rectifications and wider benefit audit projects.
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A switch from Scheme Reconciliation Service to Shared Workspace: something to worry about or a surprising benefit?
The end of contracting-out has finally come and gone. So what now? Well, schemes with changed benefit design may be cancelling their contracting-out certificate an…
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RIP contracting-out: gone but not forgotten
Chinese New Year, the Budget, the Six Nations, Easter and the Cricket T20 World Cup have all come and gone already in 2016. Something else that’s been with us for …
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PASA: guidance on GMP reconciliation and rectification
The Pensions Administration Standards Association have launched guidance relating to Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) reconciliation and rectification projects.
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Contracting out: here's looking at you kid
Like Bogart and Bergman’s feelings for Paris, perhaps more than a few of us thought we’d always have contracting-out. We won’t and it shouldn’t be news to you that…
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HMRC contracting-out forums: What have we learnt?
Following the recent forums held by the HMRC in Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Newcastle to discuss macro issues relating to the end of contracting-out we look at the…
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New State Pension statements; will we COPE?
Baroness Ros Altmann, recently chaired a meeting to inform the pensions industry, about changes to the way DWP will communicate with members approaching State Pensi…
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Briefing
Making sense of GMP reconciliation
There's an abundance of communication surrounding GMP reconciliation, however, much of this includes acronyms and terminology unique to the subject matter. We’ve pu…
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Case Study
Bespoke approach to pension in payment tolerances for GMP reconciliation
Hickson UK Group Pension Scheme appointed Barnett Waddingham in 2005 to provide a flexible and high quality pension administration service for their members who hav…
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HMRC countdown bulletin 10: the letters and numbers you need to know
The National Insurance Services to Pensions Industry publish a regular guide to the industry on the end of contracting-out. Here, I highlight some of the key topics…