Public-sector Pensions
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| 1 | Contracting out of the state second pension: overview The key points about legislation allowing employers and employees in occupational and personal pension schemes to contract out of the state second pension (and its predecessor SERPS). Contracted-out schemes must comply with specific rules about the alternative benefits they provide outside the state pension system. As well as looking at the current regime, the note briefly considers ongoing problems with guaranteed minimum pensions (GMPs), including plans for equalising GMPs between the sexes, and highlights the abolition of DC contracting-out in April 2012. The government's plans to abolish DB contracting-out are also summarised. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Overview of pension schemes in the public sector This note provides an overview of pension schemes in the public sector. It looks at the four main statutory schemes: the Local Government Pension Scheme, the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme, the National Health Service Pension Scheme and the Teachers' Pension Scheme. It also provides an overview of trust-based pension schemes that operate in the broader public-sector arena, like the Universities Superannuation Scheme and the Social Housing Pension Scheme. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Staff transfers under TUPE: toolkit A toolkit to guide users through key maintained PLC content on staff transfers under TUPE, including links to all the relevant materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | GAD passports and broad comparability: overview This note gives an overview of the issues facing private sector contractors providing a broadly comparable pension scheme as part of a public sector outsourcing. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Managing pensions risk in local authority outsourcing ... This practice note considers how local authorities and contractors share risks and manage their obligations under the Fair Deal guidance and the Best Value Direction 2007 and how they provide for these in the outsourcing agreement. The note provides links to a bulk transfer schedule and compulsory clauses in LGPS admission agreements. Some standard pensions clauses found in outsourcing agreements are set out at the end. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | Public-sector pension schemes: outsourcing This practice note considers the issues that arise when employees who are members of public-sector pension schemes transfer to the private sector as part of an outsourcing exercise. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Public-sector pensions reform tracker This tracker charts the progress of the government's reforms to public-sector pension schemes. It includes details of the Public Service Pensions Bill and the Fair Deal consultation, as well as other significant changes that have already been brought into force. | Practice notes | Maintained |