Pensions Update - April 2019

This is the April 2019 edition of the Pensions Update.

In this issue:

• Our 21st Century Trusteeship Panel Event
• General Pensions News
• Government publishes response to consultation on pensions dashboards
• DWP guidance on GMP conversion: a helpful piece of the equalisation puzzle, but other important pieces remain outstanding
• PPF issues new guidance on contingency planning for employer insolvency
• PPF publishes strategy for 2019-2022
• Lifetime Allowance increase
• Pensions Disputes News
• Equal treatment: Advocate-General concludes that retrospective levelling down of benefits during Barber window is not permitted
• Scope of trustees powers: British Airways settles pensions litigation
• Recouping pension overpayments: Pensions Ombudsman publishes factsheet defending its position as a "competent court" for the purposes of Section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995