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Actions by the Local Government & Teachers’ Schemes Group of EPF

Actions by the Local Government & Teachers’ Schemes Group of EPF

Letters have been sent to the Chancellor and to the Secretaries of State for Education and Communities and Local Government and the Minister of State for Work & Pensions.  These letters (The following documents is a copy of the letter to the Chancellor   EPF letter to the Chancellor - 18 February 2011) raise particular concerns about the current proposals from the Treasury under the following four headings:

  • Unfairness and potential inequalities between contribution levies across public sector workforces
  • It is only reasonable and realistic to consider the appropriateness of contribution levels in relation to other real and expected changes to scheme benefits
  • The danger of prompting wide-scale opting out of public schemes
  • The risk to sustainability of the public schemes.

A further letter has been sent to the Minister of State for Universities and Science alerting him to an over-arching concern about the risk to HE institutions should changes be pushed through that led to the schemes HEIs operate becoming unsustainable.   

Additionally UCEA will be making HE sector responses to the Government's consultations which are now open. See Government Consultations for more information 

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