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Pensions blunder to spell a £220 income cutThousands of retired teachers, nurses, doctors, judges, military personnel and civil servants are facing an average cut in their income of £220 next year because of a vast Government pensions blunder.Gordon Brown was facing growing calls to soften the blow for more than 100,000 pensioners who are receiving letters this week telling them they have unknowingly been paid too much. As the full scale of the scandal began to emerge, Cabinet Office Minister Liam Byrne admitted yesterday that public sector workers had been being paid too much for decades, with a staggering £140million of taxpayers' money wasted so far. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/a...youre-lucky-live-Scotland-is.html |