With the USS on the up, we need to try to flatten the roller coaster
The pension scheme’s healthy reported surplus could allow us to put benefits and contribution rates on a more stable long-term footing, says Carol Young
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UUK proposes less generous pensions to stave off USS price hike
Union warns that employers ‘have offered very little to dissuade members from voting for another round of industrial action’
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V-cs seek review of planned hike in USS pension contributions
Universities UK raises concern about influence of regulator on fund’s valuation, while indicating possible reforms to benefits
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USS says pension contributions set to hit 50 per cent of salaries
Universities UK says increases are unaffordable for employers and risk pricing even more staff out of scheme
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Commit to restoring ‘?7,000’ pension losses now, say USS members
Major governance reform ‘desperately needed’ despite improving financial health of UK’s biggest higher education scheme
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USS pension contributions ‘could reach 68 per cent of salaries’
Universities call for members to have option to reduce their contributions in return for different benefits
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Coronavirus: USS pensions could become ‘much less generous’
Radical changes may be on cards after stock market crash and interest rate cuts, say experts
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USS reforms
UUK’s proposed hybrid scheme could result in losses of ?20,000 a year
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USS guesswork
We write as members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme who are concerned that negotiations over the future of our pension scheme are based on the projection of a very large deficit based on an...
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USS chief executive gets ?260K bonus ahead of departure
Bill Galvin receives overall pay packet of ?790,000, one of 212 pension fund staff paid?more than ?100,000
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USS pension offer doesn’t go far enough, say UCU candidates
General secretary hopefuls want further concessions from pension scheme
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USS offers new pension options after cutting deficit estimate
Proposals reduce anticipated future contributions, but fall short of union members’ ‘no detriment’ demand
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V-cs ‘seriously underestimated’ USS pension cuts, study claims
Those who earn less than ?40,000 a year face losing about 30?per cent of the value of their pension, according to ‘first global analysis’
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USS crisis: can the pension system be reformed?
Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King and economist John Kay address the USS’ so-called funding crisis and propose a fairer approach to sharing risk between employers, employees and generations
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Is it time to break up the USS?
Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman assesses the history of UK academia’s main pension scheme to ask whether it needs fundamental reform