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Two schemes fined for non-compliance over chair’s statements


By Natalie Tuck

Two schemes have been fined for failing to comply with The Pensions Regulator’s requirements to produce a chair’s statement, as the regulator warns other schemes to comply with the law.

The fines against the two schemes were upheld in court; in separate cases, the trustees failed to include the required information in their annual statement and were issued fines by TPR. Trustees appealed the decisions to the First-Tier Tribunal


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