date: 6 November 2012
embargo: For immediate release
Responding to the government's call for evidence on whether to lift restrictions imposed on NEST, the low-cost pensions scheme established by government in advance of pensions auto-enrolment, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
'This call for evidence is welcome.
'Restrictions on NEST harm consumers who cannot take full advantage of this low- cost, well-governed scheme.
'They are a burden on employers who often cannot use NEST as a single scheme for all their staff.
'NEST's public service obligation that compels them to take on any employer, even those the industry would not touch with a bargepole without high charges, is sufficient justification for the very modest state aid in NEST's loan arrangements.'
NOTES TO EDITORS:
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