Occupational pension schemes to suffer as cost of pension simplification is twice the price of the pension protection fund

New research from actuarial consultants Higham Group shows that UK occupational pension schemes will have to pay at least £300 million in order to comply with new tax rules, aimed at simplifying the pensions industry. This staggering figure, which dwarfs all previous estimates, is over twice the £150 million sum the Government hoped to raise this year (also from occupational pension schemes) to fund the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

New research from actuarial consultants Higham Group shows that UK occupational pension schemes will have to pay at least £300  million in order to comply with new tax rules, aimed at simplifying the pensions industry.  This staggering figure, which dwarfs all previous estimates, is over twice the £150 million sum the Government hoped to raise this year (also from occupational pension schemes) to fund the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

On top of this, the Government recently announced a code of practice about how trustees and companies should fund these same occupational pension schemes.

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