Spending Review will make LGPS 'unsustainable' - GMB

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The Local Government Pension Scheme will become "unsustainable" following cuts outlined in last month's Comprehensive Spending Review, the GMB warns.

The trade body said under measures laid out in government's CSR to save an additional £1.8bn a year by 2014-15, 1.7 million council workers will be obliged to pay three percentage points extra into...

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