‘Hugely complex’ pension remedy
Doctors forced to move to the 2015 NHS Pension Scheme will be compensated under new proposals which will remove the age discrimination judged to have arisen by the Court of Appeal. When the 2015 pension scheme was introduced, older members – within ten years of retiring – were allowed to continue with […]...
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