Research Briefing
Public service pensions – background
Includes facts and figures on public service pensions and looks at how costs are measured
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Research Briefing
Local Government Pension Scheme, 2010 onwards
This note provides a summary of recent reforms to the LGPS and the debate around future reforms
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Research Briefing
Local Government Pension Scheme: 2008 reforms
This note looks at reforms introduced to the Local Government Pension Scheme in April 2008. The current debate on further reforms to the scheme is in SN 5823 Local Government Pension Scheme - 2010 onwards
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Research Briefing
Public service pension contributions
Looks at current proposals to increase employee contributions to public service pension schemes
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Research Briefing
Population ageing: statistics
Population ageing: statistics. By Tom Rutherford. SN/SG/3228.
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Research Briefing
2012 Benefit Uprating
Sets out the basis for the uprating of benefits and tax credits in the 2012-13 financial year.
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Research Briefing
Public service pension schemes – cost capping and sharing
This note looks at the mechanisms introduced as part of reforms to the four large public service pension schemes in 2007-08 to cap the contributions made by employers, thereby limiting the liability of the taxpayer. The current Government has decided to replace this policy with employee contribution increases.
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Research Briefing
Uprating of social security benefits
Most but not all benefits are uprated in April each year, by reference to the increase in prices over the year to the previous September. The current Government has adopted the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) as the measure of inflation for uprating purposes. CPI tends to rise more slowly than the measures used. previously. The CPI for September 2011 was higher than expected, and media reports have suggested that the Government was considering changing the basis for uprating benefits. In the Autumn Statement the Chancellor announced that while benefits would increase by the full CPI from April 2011, the couple and lone parent elements of Working Tax Credit would be frozen and the child element of Child Tax Credit would increase by less than was planned.
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Research Briefing
The CPI – uprating benefits and pensions
Article discussion the implications of the June 2010 Budget Coalition Government announcement that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) would be used to uprate benefits, and state pensions, including public service pensions.
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Research Briefing
Pension Credit – background
Looks at at the introduction of Pension Credit and its development to December 2011
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Research Briefing
Pensions Bill 2011 – final stages
Section 1 of the Pensions Act 2011 will accelerate the increase in the State Pension age to 66. The amended the Bill in its final stages to cap the maximum increase in women's State Pension age at 18 months relative to the previously legislated timetable. This note also looks at this and other Government amendments to the Bill in its final stages. It complements and updates Library Research Paper 11/68 Pensions Bill: Commitee Stage Report.
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Research Briefing
Pensions Bill: Committee Stage Report
This is a report on the Public Bill Committee Stage of the Pensions Bill. It is designed to complement Research Paper Pensions Bill (RP 11/52), which covers in more detail the background to the Bill and the debates in the House of Lords.
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Research Briefing
Welfare Reform Bill 2010-12: Commons Report Stage and Third Reading
The Commons Report Stage and Third Reading of the Welfare Reform Bill took place on 13 and 15 June. Amendments relating to the Universal Credit, housing support, the Social Fund and the Personal Independence Payment were debated, but other groups of amendments –including those on Employment and Support Allowance changes and the benefit cap – were not discussed as proceedings on each day reached the deadlines specified in the programme motion before they could be considered.
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Research Briefing
Pension Credit statistics
Pension Credit Statistics. By Tom Rutherford. SN/SG/2756.
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Research Briefing
Pensions Bill [HL], Bill 183 of 2010-12
This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons on the Pensions Bill and outlines the main changes to the paper.
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