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There are two sorts of private pension: the savings plan and the salary-linked pension.
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Its employees are guaranteed an inflation-linked pension so it meets that promise by buying inflation-linked bonds.
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They say there is no reason to believe the sales costs of an index-linked pension fund will be lower, and that a big cause of high costs is excessive regulation.
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So, too, have workers at United Airlines: a bankruptcy judge recently ruled that the firm could hand its pension plan over to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, a government-linked pension insurer that pays only partial benefits to high-earners.
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"Winter fuel payments have always been linked to state pension and simply because that age is rising is not a reason to change that linkage, " he said.
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The state pension, also linked to the RPI, must go up by at least 2.5%, following a promise made by ministers a few years ago when inflation fell and pensioners got shirty.
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Many of them were enrolled in occupational pension schemes that were linked to their final salaries.
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And the basic state pension will be re-linked in 2012 to earnings, which increase faster than prices.
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In particular, they announced that increases to the basic pension would no longer be linked to the rise in average earnings, but to inflation, which is usually lower.
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"Workers are being asked to work a little bit longer and to pay a bit more but they will be guaranteed a pension which is index-linked and inflation proof, " she said.
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But, anyone with a pension or investment that is still linked to the RPI will be deeply relieved.
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GM's new strategy is to shift more of its pension funds into asset classes that aren't as closely linked to overall market performance.
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