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Saturday 27 January 2018
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Monday 22 January 2018
Pension accounts are going online
The latest edition of Reporting Pensions is now available.
Please take some time to read it as it contains important information about the Local Government Pension Scheme.
It
includes information about the introduction of My Oxfordshire Pension, providing
online access to your pension record. Scheme members will be asked to register
and annual benefits statements will be available this way in future. If you
cannot access an online system and wish to keep paper as your main
method of communication, you need to let Pensions Services know. You can do
this by completing and returning a form which is in the booklet.
The booklet is available here
This issue covers:
- More on your benefit statement
- Cautionary warning about pension scams
- Progress towards My Oxfordshire Pension - the on-line member service
- Reminders on some LGPS topical issues
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Are you currently receiving Universal Credit?
Are you currently receiving Universal Credit? If so we'd like your help.
To show how the government is clawing back much of the money ministers claim is helping workers on low pay, we're looking for case studies of individuals or families who are on the national minimum wage – currently £7.50 an hour – and who also get Universal Credit.
Between October 2015 and April 2018, the national minimum wage will have risen from £6.50 to £7.83 an hour, an hourly increase of £1.33.
But UNISON has worked out for people who are in receipt of Universal Credit, much of that rise will have ended up not in their pockets, but back in the hands of the Treasury.
If this is you, or describes someone you know, please get in touch by emailing UNISON's media team on press@unison.co.uk or Pete Challis, the report's authorp.challis@unison.co.uk
We'd need the following information: whether there are one or two earners on the minimum wage in your household, how many hours you (and they) work, how many children you have (if any), and how much you pay in rent, or how much your mortgage is a month.
If you were happy to be named in the report, and possibly speak to a journalist, it would help UNISON bring the campaign's attention to a wider audience. This would hopefully ensure that a greater proportion of future minimum wage increases end up in the hands of those who need it the most.
But the most important thing is to find some real life stories to illustrate the report, so even if you don't want to be named, please do still get in touch, as an anonymous household would still help us out no end.
Many thanks
To show how the government is clawing back much of the money ministers claim is helping workers on low pay, we're looking for case studies of individuals or families who are on the national minimum wage – currently £7.50 an hour – and who also get Universal Credit.
Between October 2015 and April 2018, the national minimum wage will have risen from £6.50 to £7.83 an hour, an hourly increase of £1.33.
But UNISON has worked out for people who are in receipt of Universal Credit, much of that rise will have ended up not in their pockets, but back in the hands of the Treasury.
If this is you, or describes someone you know, please get in touch by emailing UNISON's media team on press@unison.co.uk or Pete Challis, the report's authorp.challis@unison.co.uk
We'd need the following information: whether there are one or two earners on the minimum wage in your household, how many hours you (and they) work, how many children you have (if any), and how much you pay in rent, or how much your mortgage is a month.
If you were happy to be named in the report, and possibly speak to a journalist, it would help UNISON bring the campaign's attention to a wider audience. This would hopefully ensure that a greater proportion of future minimum wage increases end up in the hands of those who need it the most.
But the most important thing is to find some real life stories to illustrate the report, so even if you don't want to be named, please do still get in touch, as an anonymous household would still help us out no end.
Many thanks
Sunday 14 January 2018
Reintroduce Oxford weighting tax.
There is a government registered petition to get an Oxford Weighting Allowance introduced at the local hospitals. The cost of living is the highest in the UK compared to average salary (even higher than London). It is really difficult to recruit and retain nurses due to the national standard government pay scales. The petition is asking for an Oxford Weighting to be added to salaries like the London Weighting. If 100,000 signatures are reached this will then be debated in parliament. Please pass on the link below:
Tuesday 9 January 2018
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils to bring services back in-house
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils to bring services back in-house after outsourcing deal designed to save up to £18m fails
check out the full story at hereFriday 5 January 2018
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