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MPs are to debate the quality of advice given to pensioners that transferred into a defined benefit (DB) scheme set up after part of the UK's nuclear industry was privatised.

Prospect is set to ballot workers at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for strike action over the company's plans to close its defined benefit (DB) scheme.

The pensions minister has confirmed the government hopes "to make an announcement shortly" on implementing changes to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) compensation cap, after several delays.

Expected changes to the PPF compensation cap to give increased benefits to those with more than 20 years’ service have been delayed. Helen Morrissey reports.

GMB members at United Utilities in the North-West are being balloted over industrial action in response to plans to close the company's defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

Babcock workers are voting on whether to take industrial action against proposals to cap pension benefits.

Civil servant scheme members of Prospect have voted by four to one to accept the government's reform package for the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme after a year of negotiations.

The Pensions Regulator has ruled out releasing its forthcoming scheme valuation guidance before April despite union calls for action.

Prospect has written to the government to demand action on scheme valuations after the Bank of England announced a third wave of quantitative easing.

Unions have rejected proposals put forward by pensions minister Steve Webb to reform the basic state pension, saying its cost neutrality "condemns it to failure".