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Reform call for public sector pensions
Public sector pensions cost twice as much to provide as previously thought and must be reformed if they are to be sustainable, a report indicated today.
Workers in the public sector would need to save more than 40 percent of their salary each year, including their employer's contribution, to fund the final salary pension benefits they are building up.
But the actual amount they contribute is half this level at six per cent for workers and 14 per cent for their employer, according to the independent Public Sector Pensions Commission.
A lack of transparency about the schemes is also masking their true cost due to the accounting methods used by the Government, it claimed.
The commission estimates that the schemes will cost the Government around 18bn during the coming financial year, using the Government's own accounting methods, but it warned that this figure nearly doubled to 35bn if the liabilities were "properly measured".
Unlike private sector final salary pensions, the public sector schemes are also unfunded, meaning that no pot of money has been set aside to pay future pensions, and as a result the liabilities of the schemes are estimated to be between 770m and 1.18bn.
There was considerable disparity between the public sector schemes and those offered to workers in the private sector.
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