Calculating the pensions pay-off
I am surprised that there appears to be so much misunderstanding as to USS pension benefits. I would indeed have been delighted on retirement 18 months ago to have received a tax-free, six-figure...
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REF-based recruitment’s effect on final salary pension schemes
Higher pay for top researchers may have caused the end of final salary scheme. Jack Grove writes
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Pensioners must guard fund from employer raids
When the Universities Superannuation Scheme replaced the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities it was one of the best schemes around. But time moves on. Memory of the difficulties caused...
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Final-salary pension in peril
Universities UK predicts stark choices in future retirement provision for academics. Melanie Newman reports. Academics may have to lose their final-salary pension schemes, according to a Universities...
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Pension deal aims to avert staff loss
Some older academics in the TPS will now be able to work and claim a pension, says Chloe Stothart A key reform of one of the higher education sector's main pension schemes could help prevent an early...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
It is worth examining what befell many who retired with benefits from the Federated Superannuation Scheme for Universities. This was a defined-contribution scheme that was the forerunner of the USS....
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Top-up pensions contributions
Perhaps it is time for a radical rethink of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (91茄子S, April 18, 21, 28), one that embraces both the concerns of USS chief executive David Chynoweth about stability...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
The USS offers a low-cost, totally risk-free, index-linked income in retirement - plus additional death in service benefits, dependants' pensions and ill-health provision. It can offer these benefits...
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Calculating the pensions pay-off
As an Association of University Teachers-appointed director of the Universities Superannuation Scheme, I have followed with interest recent exchanges in The 91茄子S on pensions. Sarah Oates (Letters,...
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Lecturers' pension proposal could encourage new blood
Proposed improvements to the lecturers' pension scheme could stave off the looming recruitment and retention crisis, the Association of University Teachers believes. Trustees of the Universities...
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What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms
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Top-up pensions contributions
Andrew Oswald ("Richer than you thought", 91茄子S, April 14; "The pension millionaire game", April 28) has shown how niggardly our pension providers can be. What is especially galling to those of us who...
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Pension plans would cost staff ‘tens of thousands’, says union
University staff would see “tens of thousands of pounds a year wiped off their pensions” if Universities UK plans for change are introduced.
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University lecturers to boycott marking over pensions row
Staff at older universities will begin a marking boycott next week in a row over pension changes
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UCU leaders derided over ‘missed’ chance for better pensions deal
Left impugns tactics in Universities Superannuation Scheme dispute but negotiators claim improvements were achieved