On 15/02/2018 14:12, pamela wrote:
On 14:03 15 Feb 2018, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Andrew wrote:
And you fail to mention the employer's
contribution which was quite large. And, interestingly, GPs
have to pay the employer's contribution out of their gross
remuneration, as self-employed. And even all that is subject
to a maximum pension pot of 1.2M which is equivalent to a
relatively moderate final salary.


And who is the 'employer' ??. The rest of us. Taxpayers.

And who do you think ultimately pays for a 'private' pension? That
would be the customers. Should they have a say too?

I thought most private pensions now are those where you have your own
pension pot with only modest contributions from the company.

Somewhat different to final-salary indexed-linked low-contribution
government pensions.

For many civil servants it was zero contribution. One of the BBC
weather men wrote an article for one of the papers a couple of
years ago, when he admitted that the extra money he received for
presenting TV weather forecasts actually boosted his pension.

All NHS Staff with London Allowance (which was over £1000 a year 30
years ago) have that allowance counted towards their final salary
for pension purposes, even though most inner London NHS staff
just commute in from further out. This means they get a 35+ year
pension enhancement even though they are no longer travelling into
London or incurring daily London prices.