A Westmeath businessman has been fined today for failing to comply with a request to provide documentation to the Pensions Ombudsman.

There has been a doubling in complaints about pensions made to Pensions Ombudsman this year.

Evelyn Ring looks at four sample complaints that were resolved by the Pensions Ombudsman’s Office

I REFER to the Pensions Ombudsman’s RTÉ broadcast criticising the recent Revenue letters to pensioners where he claimed “not enough homework was done“, that “the matter could be handled more sensitively” and “the gun was jumped a bit”.

The number of complaints received by the Pensions Ombudsman was up significantly last year.

The watchdog that monitors pension schemes is to launch its annual report today.

I READ with some horror the article on pensions by Paul Mills (Irish Examiner, September 28). This misleading and almost entirely inaccurate rubbish cannot pass without retort.

The Pensions Ombudsman has reported an increase of almost one-third in the number of complaints received by his office last year.

THE Government routinely warns us of the pensions time-bomb and many measures are under consideration to promote worker participation in pension schemes.

WHATEVER the rights and wrongs of the case involving the jailing of three Dublin building workers, it has inevitably focused the spotlight on mounting concerns about the competing rights of employers and employees in the Irish workplace.

Builders who keep pension contributions owed to their workers will face prosecution, the Pensions Ombudsman warned today.

THE average managed pension fund increased by 12.5% in 2003, Coyle Hamilton states in its review of the Irish pensions market.

Paul Kenny, the Pensions Ombudsman has urged pension scheme trustees to speed up implementation of Internal Disputes Resolution procedures.