DWP must avoid ECJ GMP test case

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The Department for Work and Pensions should advance legislation clarifying guaranteed minimum pensions equalisation rather than undertake a costly ECJ test case, a lawyer says.

Eversheds partner and Bridge Trustees chairman Giles Orton said that taking the case to Europe would answer one question but raise at least three more and make problems for the future, as well as p...

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