The Trustee Acts

We’ve been saying for months that Willis Towers Watson’s level of customer service is woeful. Members have complained about not being able to get through to WTW or not having letters answered. We wrote to Mr Harry Baines, Chairman of the Trustee Board, who also never...

Pension Surpluses Up For Grabs?

Lloyds Banking Group and other listed companies could be allowed to extract as much as £50 billion from their pension schemes under radical plans set out by the Chancellor in his recent Mansion House speech. One of the central ideas floated by the Chancellor is to...

Pension Deficit Contribution

Lloyds made a total of £2.2bn of pension scheme deficit reduction contributions in 2022. Those contributions were made to the group’s three main defined benefit (DB) pension schemes. Fixed deficit reduction contributions of £800m were paid in full during the first...

Fast Tracking Performance Dismissals

A few weeks ago, the Bank launched its new redundancy policy, which will see payments slashed for those staff who refuse the offer of a ‘reasonable’ alternative role (as defined by the Bank of course) or reskilling opportunity. Lloyds has now announced –...

Review Of Pensions

As we said in our last email the Trustee of the LBG pension schemes must act in the best interests of scheme members. Many pensioner members are struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis and that’s only going to get worse over the next few months. The Retail...

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