NAO: Treasury has failed to plan for rise in public sector scheme costs

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The Treasury has failed to plan for changes in the size of the public sector when calculating pension costs, a National Audit Office report claims.

The audit body said total payments to the more than two million pensioners in the UK's four largest pay-as-you-go pension schemes - the Armed Forces Pension Scheme, the Principal Civil Service Pens...

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