P&E Update: Pensions Bulletin

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Tax

  • HMRC "downgrades" its QROPS list

News from the Regulator

  • changes to DC scheme return for 2015
  • Pensions Regulator’s 2015 analysis of recovery plans
  • Regulator’s annual DB Scheme Funding Statement 2015

PPF update

  • PPF Ombudsman determinations highlight importance of exact compliance with levy rules
  • revised actuarial factors
  • guidance on insolvency practitioner remuneration
  • Levy FAQs: Experian insolvency scores/mortgage age

Cases supplement

  • implied duty of good faith: High Court decision in Bradbury
  • IBM: Early retirement policy
  • no requirement for shareholder approval for top-up scheme: Granada v Law Debenture
  • Government Actuary’s Department’s failure to review commutation factors was maladministration: Ombudsman’s determination in relation to Mr. Milne