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During the past two years or so, firefighters have staged a number of walkouts connected to planned wider pensions changes and an increase to the retirement age.
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But an OECD report published this week shows that Germany has the widest pension benefits gap between men and women in Europe and the US.
Ministers said they would support collective industry-wide pension schemes, like those which are popular in the Netherlands, and more flexible employer-based schemes.
Mr. Harding is the latest figure to be charged in the wide pension corruption investigation by Mr. Cuomo, who is scrutinizing the fees paid to associates of Mr. Hevesi by investment firms seeking business with the pension fund.
As for the UK-wide pensions protection fund – which acts as a backstop for failing schemes – the ICAS argues this would have to be split and again could be a huge burden on Scotland.
In an independent Scotland, overnight all UK-wide pensions would become cross-border.
It would be the most severe penalty for any of the Wall Street executives ensnared in the wide-ranging pension investigation, and it would carry a significant stigma for Mr. Rattner, whose rise in high finance catapulted him to the top of New York's social and political hierarchy.
Wide-ranging pension coverage is one factor that can help the elderly population of a country.
That was just a warm-up for the much larger deal to bail out AIG that the same cast of characters hatched when, as Bush writes, the firm with its tentacles spread wide in pension funds, municipal bonds and 401 k)s "was somehow on the brink of implosion," and had to be saved through a $180 billion infusion of government funds, leaving U.S. taxpayers today with 92percentt ownership of the company.
