compensation

The department for work and pensions has published draft regulations for the extension of the Financial Assistance Scheme.

Pension campaigners claim the opinion given against them in the European Court of Justice, will not affect their plans to launch a judicial review.

THE GOVERNMENT could force companies to pay higher levies to its £575m pensions lifeboat after a key finding yesterday by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

The Parliamentary Ombudsman has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for failing to implement her recommendations.

Despite being an adviser to the prime minister's policy unit, Dr Ros Altmann could be considered to be the government's chief nemesis on the subject of pensions.

The government has refused to waive its costs if they win a judicial review over its response to the Parliamentary Ombudsman's report on pensions.

The government has applied for an order which could limit the amount of compensation paid to workers who have lost their pensions.

Capita Hartshead has been appointed by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to take administrative control of compensation payments to members of eligible defined benefit (DB) pension schemes which have failed.

The introduction of the Compensation Bill 2006 and the authorisation of claims management companies (CMC), will lead to a shrinking in the number of personal injury companies in operation, claims a new report from Datamonitor.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has this morning declared another 65 investment intermediary firms have fallen into the industry-paid compensation pot for consumer mis-selling claims.