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The Spending Round is the next stage in the government’s plan to move from rescue to recovery. That was the message from Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, as he delivered his Spending Round speech last week, setting out departmental budgets for the financial year 2015 to 2016.
As a result, shareholders of around 900 main market companies will be ‘better prepared to hold companies to account, using clearer information on pay to exercise their new legally binding vote on executive pay’.
Long service is not currently taken into account when a person whose defined benefit pension scheme collapses and is then taken over by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). The government is to increase the maximum level for those receiving capped compensation by 3% for every year of service over 20 years.
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National Prepaid Cards Steering Group Issues Comprehensive Guide to Local Government Implementation - A new and comprehensive guide to the use of Prepaid cards in Local Government has been produced by the National Prepaid Cards Steering Group.
The Steering Group, supported by MasterCard, is the first organisation to bring together councils who are using Prepaid cards, councils who are interested in implementing Prepaid card programmes and wanting to learn more about others’ experiences, and representatives from the supply side in the form of Programme Managers.
The Steering Group has discussed many of the issues facing councils and suppliers in an open and constructive way. This has enabled the Programme Managers to better understand the real needs of councils and so develop and tailor their products to deliver practical value and return on investment.
Within this helpful guide, the Steering Group have incorporated the content they believed to be of most use to other councils who wanted to know more, including are a number of relevant case studies which demonstrate the value of prepaid and the success of existing programmes in terms of efficiency improvements and cost reduction.
Click here to access and download your free copy of the full guide now.
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