Defined Benefit  

Royal Mail closes DB pension scheme

Last month the Communication Workers Union (CWU), a union representing Royal Mail workers, proposed a hybrid scheme that would see pension scheme risks shared between the business and the workers, but this was quickly dismissed by independent pension consultants.

Royal Mail first proposed closing its DB scheme in January this year when it first launched its review into its final salary scheme, just more than three years after the business was privatised.

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