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The UK Chancellor invited John Hutton to chair an independent commission on public service pension provision.〔http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/indreview_johnhutton_pensions.htm〕 This was intended to reduce the otherwise increasing cost of taxpayer-funded state pensions (as life expectancy increased) while ensuring adequate levels of retirement income. ==Recommendations made in the report== *The Government should make clear its assessment of the role of public service pension schemes which should be to ensure adequate levels of retirement income for public service pensioners. *Public service employers take greater account of public service pensions when constructing remuneration packages and designing workforce strategies. *The Government should ensure that public service schemes, along with a full state pension, deliver at least adequate levels of income for scheme members. *The Government must honour in full the pension promises that have been accrued by scheme members. This includes the final salary link of all contributions to date. *Members of the current defined benefit public should be moved as soon as possible to new schemes. *All public service pension schemes should regularly publish data which is produced to common standards and collated centrally. *A new career average revalued earnings (CARE) scheme should be adopted for general use in the public service schemes. *Pension benefits should be uprated in line with average earnings during the accrual phase for active scheme members. Post-retirement, pensions in payment should be indexed in line with prices to maintain their purchasing power and adequacy during retirement. *A single benefit design should apply across the whole income range. The differing characteristics of higher and lower earners should be addressed through tiered contribution rates. *Members should have greater choice over when to start drawing their pension benefits. *The Government should increase the member’s Normal Pension Age in the new schemes so that it is in line with their State Pension Age. *The Government, on behalf of the taxpayer, should set out a fixed cost ceiling: the proportion of pensionable pay that they will contribute, on average, to employees’ pensions over the long term. If this is exceeded then there should be a consultation process to bring costs back within the ceiling, with an automatic default change if agreement cannot be reached. *It is in principle undesirable for future non-public service workers to have access to public service pension schemes. *The consultation process itself should be centrally co-ordinated. However, the consultation on details should be conducted scheme by scheme involving employees and their representatives. 〔https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/207720/hutton_final_100311.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Independent Public Services Pensions Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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