Government to blame for pension penury – Shropshire Star

Shropshire Star Government to blame for pension penuryShropshire Star, UKThe pension fund is £5.9 billion in debt due primarily to the government allowing Royal Mail to cease its contributions to the fund for 17 years – an offer not extended to the workforce. For the last 10 years this government has …

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'The eBay of social care' – guardian.co.uk

guardian.co.uk 'The eBay of social care'guardian.co.uk, UKCaroline Tomlinson, consumer support director for social enterprise InControl, teamed up in 2006 with a Wigan-based technology company called Valueworks to produce Shop4Support, which she hopes will become the "eBay of social care". … More: continued here

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Time for a Post Office bank – guardian.co.uk

BBC News Time for a Post Office bankguardian.co.uk, UKWhich is where yesterday's launch of the Post Bank campaign comes in. A few years ago, calls for the post office network to be tooled up to deliver state-owned banking services would have struggled to get off the ground. But the banking crisis …

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