Included in this issue: Supreme Court rules same sex partners entitled to equal survivor pension benefits for all service; IBM Court of Appeal ruling on Employer's power to make pension changes and more...

• Supreme Court rules same sex partners entitled to equal survivor pension benefits for all service
• IBM Court of Appeal ruling on Employer's power to make pension changes
• Court of Appeal gives key judgment in salary capping case of Bradbury v BBC
• Supreme Court gives key ruling on pension sharing on divorce under Scots law
• Court of Appeal holds calculating ill-health pension on part-time salary not disability discrimination
• New Money Laundering Regulations: implications for pension schemes not clear
• Regulations ban early exit charges and extend ban on member-borne commission
• Pensions Regulator publishes consultation response on professional trustee description and monetary penalties policy
• Ombudsman upholds Trustees' refusal to provide more than one binding transfer value quote per year
• Complaint upheld where scheme refused to transfer bankrupt member's fund
• Pensions Ombudsman upholds complaint where transfer made to scheme that was no longer a QROPS
• Member not required to re-pay overpayments where she had been assured benefits were correct
• Ombudsman upholds complaint where Trustees treated review of ill-health pension as new decision
• Consultation response on pension scams: changes to transfer rights proposed
• Government to publish White Paper on DB pensions later this year
• Changes to state pension age
• Reduction in money purchase annual allowance to go ahead for current tax year
• Lifetime allowance to increase in line with CPI inflation from April 2018
• TPAS, Pension Wise and Money Advice Service to merge
• Consultation response re valuing benefits with GARs for purposes of the advice requirement
• Pension surplus – changes to IFRIC 14 accounting standard

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