Accounting tricks and pension deficits
We have been told that the Universities Superannuation Scheme's deficit has grown so large in the past year as to threaten its survival ("Deficit puts pension scheme in jeopardy", News, 13 September...
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Pension tensions (1 of 3)
In "Candid Cantor" (Letters, 31 March), Daniel Vulliamy misreads Brian Cantor's letter of 17 March on the Universities Superannuation Scheme and quotes him out of context. As Cantor points out, the...
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Cambridge’s Trinity faces union boycott after confirming USS exit
Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity
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Battle for control of pensions looms
Fury as chair suggests employers could question UCU's involvement in the USS. John Morgan writes
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USS to revisit ?7.5 billion deficit valuation
Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead
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Pensions are safe if we don't stop working
Proposals to remove the retirement age should be good news for the academic superannuation pot, but Darrel Ince warns that there are downsides as well
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Despite the financial turmoil, there is still scope for improved UK pensions
Although available information on USS finances is patchy, scope appears to remains for restored benefits or reduced contributions, says Michael Bromwich
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Pensions, not politics
As a delegate to the University and College Union congress from the branch that moved the "work-to-contract" motion for staff in the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I would like to address some...
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Pension tensions (2 of 3)
The refusal of the employers to negotiate on changes to the USS and a national jobs agreement indicates a "no-compromise" position. They clearly want to take advantage of the government's...
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‘No one knows for sure’: deficit at heart of USS dispute debated
Four experts discuss the estimated shortfall that led to strike action at UK universities
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London lecturers strike over pensions
Lecturers from post-1992 universities in London are joining school teachers in a walk-out to protest against changes to their pensions.
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‘Genie out of the bottle’ on casualisation after pension strikes
Industrial action at UK universities a ‘seminal moment’, say academics
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Pensions: preempt the Treasury
The USS is bloated with money for two reasons: the unanticipated decline in academic pay has caused a corresponding fall in actuarial liability for the USS, and because whenever a USS member moves to...
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Deadlock over pension reform
Final-salary deals still in balance as employers and unions fail to agree. John Morgan reports