{"id":864847,"date":"2026-04-01T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/864847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:37:42","slug":"pension-contributions-in-jersey-reduced-due-to-fund-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/864847\/","title":{"rendered":"Pension contributions in Jersey reduced due to fund surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Turner, Jersey&#8217;s regional officer for the union, said the additional 1% in take home pay would help members cope with the &#8220;exceptional&#8221; cost of living in Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the pension would remain the same at the end of the term but in effect employees would have a 1% pay rise, since the 1% currently going into the pension would instead go into take-home pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teachers and head teachers will not see any change as they are part of the Jersey Teachers Superannuation Fund, which remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said the adjustments would save taxpayers about \u00a310m a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Turner, Jersey&#8217;s regional officer for the union, said the additional 1% in take home pay would help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-864847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116329489784047249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}