Pension scheme deficits wiped out
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The UK's top 100 firms show a collective Â£15bn surplus in pension schemes, a complete turnaround in two years.
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The federal agency that insures pension plans said that its deficit, already at the highest in its history, had doubled in its last fiscal year, to $23.3 billion.
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A smashing blow is being dealt to thousands of future pensioners by a law that has just been brought into force by the Federal Government.
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Struggling under a cascade of bankruptcy filings in the airline and steel industries, the government's pension insurance agency said Monday that its deficit has more than doubled in the past year -- to $23.3 billion.
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Guaranteed pension benefits hang like the Sword of Damocles over corporate earnings.
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Civil Servants have been reduced to writing out benefit claims by hand after what experts are calling the biggest crash in computer history.
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Hundreds of carpet factory workers lose up to 60% of their pensions after their employer goes out of business.
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A Â£141m computer system used to process benefits payments is scrapped, the BBC learns.
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From Commons grilling on public sector reform to a missed lunch at the heart of Europe
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Around the world, public pension liabilities are regarded as the single greatest domestic problem confronting developed nations. Technically, fiscally, morally or politically -- whatever way you look at it -- pension reform seems close to impossible.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are wrongly told they have a gap in their tax records that could affect their pension.
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The government will today face intense pressure to signal a shift away from means-tested pensions in the face of the independent Turner commission report&#39;s startling finding that Britain faces a Â£57bn annual pensions gap.
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NEW YORK -- The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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The deficit at the federal agency  that rescues failed U.S. pension funds more than doubled to  $23.3 billion in fiscal 2004, officials said on Monday, as the  safety net was hit by losses from pension plans that have  failed or are expected to fail.
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The final-salary pension schemes of the UK's 100 largest companies will show an aggregate surplus of 15 billion pounds ($29.74 billion) at the end of 2007, Deloitte said on Wednesday.
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The federal agency that insures pension plans said yesterday that its deficit, already at the highest in its history, had doubled in its last fiscal year, to $23.
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ENGINEERS were today tackling a massive computer failure which has caused chaos at the Department for Work and Pensions. Up to 80 per cent of the ministryâs systems for processing millions of pension and benefit payments collapsed on Monday.