RBS scheme may tap taxpayer cash for fund deficit

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group pension scheme may use more than £800m of taxpayer cash to shore up the funding position of its pension fund.

In the company's annual report, the funding position of its defined benefit scheme declined from a surplus of £340m to a deficit of almost £2bn. The report showed the company would make a cash cont...

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