{"id":82744,"date":"2025-05-30T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82744"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:58:54","slug":"leave-pensioners-money-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/30\/leave-pensioners-money-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave pensioner&#8217;s money alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/46abb073-db68-4c5b-be95-38a50e589c53?shareType=nongift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FT notes this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-07.54.42-550x151.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-07.54.42-550x150.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-07.54.42-768x211.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-07.54.42-600x165.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-07.54.42.png 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever there are pension surpluses, which imply that corporate pension funds are adequately funded, the companies sponsoring such funds demand the right to have their money back.<\/p>\n<p>This always ends in tears.<\/p>\n<p>When will we learn that pensioners have a right to their money, and it no longer belongs to their employers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT notes this morning: Whenever there are pension surpluses, which imply that corporate pension funds are adequately funded, the companies sponsoring such funds<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/30\/leave-pensioners-money-alone\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82746,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744\/revisions\/82746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}