A rolling deregulatory review of pension legislation has received a boost with the appointment of two external reviewers.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced it has appointed Ed Sweeney, the joint deputy general secretary of the union Amicus, and Chris Lewin, former head of UK pensions at Unilever, to “drive forward a shake-up of pensions regulation”. Announced earlier this year in the first pensions white paper in May, the government says the deregulatory review will look at ways of lightening regulation and reducing the burden on employers who provide good workplace schemes. Mentioned as part of the DWP’s simplification plan earlier this week, the review has so far led to the governm...
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