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USS: review confirms improved finances but changes will have to wait
In-depth look at scheme’s finances confirms deficit has shrunk since last valuation but ‘volatile market’ means benefits cannot be improved, yet.
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USS pension changes ‘leave typical academics ?240K worse off’
Average members set to get ?18,200 a year in retirement under latest changes, compared with ?23,800 under pre-2011 scheme
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Dissatisfaction with USS mounts as fund pays top staff more
Pension scheme’s annual report shows relationship with members worsening amid ongoing dispute over contributions
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USS pensions: v-cs drop request for two-year strike moratorium
UUK proposal calls for next month’s ballot to be cancelled in return for a 0.5 per cent increase in employer contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme
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Employers on the future of the USS
Institutions are exploring how to address the deficit and keep the scheme sustainable, says Anton?Muscatelli
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USS: index of anguish
In the debate over the level of the salary cap to be introduced into USS pensions, in which members would receive career revalued benefits (CRB) on up to ?50,000 of their salary, little seems to have...
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False assumptions of the USS
Last week, the Employers Pension Forum published “Proposed Changes to USS – Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings”. The document contains misinformation and a mistake. We focus on the section “...
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USS proceeds with valuation ‘in the middle of a crisis’
Concerns raised over pension scheme’s ability to judge its health after virus crisis market plunge
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The USS: fact and fiction
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members’ pensions. We...
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USS deficit could mean all have to pay more
Multibillion-pound funding gap may leave staff footing the bill
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USS whistleblower ‘breached confidence’ by talking to press
Leaked summary of report into Jane Hutton’s conduct on USS board says speaking to media ‘by no means a proportionate response’ when regulators were still investigating concerns
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The USS strike and the winter of academics’ discontent
The protests against pensions reforms reflect not just self-interest but also anger about working conditions and a sense that universities are losing their way. Jack Grove explores how proposed...
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Kate Barker to succeed David Eastwood as USS chair
Birmingham v-c to step down from pension fund board this August
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Tiered contributions under consideration with USS row at deadlock
Universities UK says some employees could ‘contribute less and get less benefit’ but academics?say approach would ‘divide workers further’