Comments: 
Last month salary received was September 2003, pension contributions  were deducted from salary, but believe were not actually paid into the pension fund for that month!

Present administrators are Trustee Services Ltd (due to company administration) Prior to  this the pension fund administrators were  'Mellon' prior to that 'Buck Consultants'

From a member of the pension scheme

Comments: July 2009 Builder Barratt is to shut its final-salary pension scheme. Bosses blame the decision, which will hit 350 workers, on an £87million deficit in the fund and growing life expectancy.

Although none of the scheme members qualify for more than the £25,000 PPF maximum payout, the Berkeley Berry scheme offers a 5pc annual inflation indexing that will be lost with the PPF.

August 2004 The scheme’s former actuary, Buck Consultants (since bought over by Mellon Financial) and three former directors were issued with summonses in July. Two of the directors involved were trustees.

Part of the Punter Southall action relates to the way directors were able to take their pensions early at this sensitive time without the kind of reduction normally associated with a scheme in dire straits. One director retired in April and two others in May.

It has now emerged that the pensions age was raised to from 65 to 75 from April 1. The scale of the crisis only became clear when the fund was revalued on wind-up, and 65 was again used as the appropriate age as that was when virtually all pension rights, apart from the last two months, had been accrued.

September 2007 THE early retirement of two directors contributed to a gaping hole in a Scottish engineering company's pension fund, a tribunal has been told.

The deficit in the final salary scheme grew by nearly £1m to £6m when a number of senior bosses left Edinburgh firm Blyth & Blyth.

Comments: April 2009 Alliance Boots is considering closing its final salary scheme to existing employees, limiting the size of pension benefits that are salary linked.

Nov 2006: British Airways plans to eliminate its £2.1bn pension deficit within 10 years by injecting £950m into its retirement scheme, nearly double the previous offer.

Nov 2006: British Airways has made its second set of concessions in two days in a bid to tackle its £2.1bn pension deficit but unions are still refusing to sign up to a deal. After a lengthy meeting, the airline bowed to union pressure and agreed to lower its proposed normal retirement age for all staff, including pilots and cabin crew, from 65 to 60.

In return for this concession, the airline said employees would have to increase their pension contributions. For the first five years, ground staff who choose to retire at 60 will have to raise contributions from 5.25pc to 10pc of pensionable pay, while air crew will have to put in 11.25pc, up from 6.5pc. After five years, rates harmonise at 10pc. BA has also agreed to raise its annual contributions from the £250m announced on Wednesday to £272m.

Jan 2007: BA has agreed to make a one-off contribution of 800 million pounds into the pension fund subject to acceptance of benefit changes.

December 2009: British Airways could close its final salary pension schemes to existing members after disclosing that the deficit has rocketed to £3.7bn and that the Pensions Regulator may deem that an undershoot.

March 2010: The airline has agreed with the main unions representing pilots, cabin crew and ground staff that workers will contribute more of their monthly salary to preserve their retirement benefits. Those that want to retire aged 60 will increase their contributions from 8.5% of salary currently to 11.5% from October this year, then to 13% from October 2011. Meanwhile, those that aim to draw their pension from the age of 65 will have to almost double their contributions from 5.25% to 9.75% from October 2011.

Comments: October 2008 Reviewing final salary scheme December 2008 BT wants to cut the traditional link with final salaries, raise the normal retirement age to 65, and build up pension entitlement at a slower rate. The changes for 65,000 staff in the BT final salary scheme will affect pensions earned after 1 April 2009. February 2010 BT has agreed to pay off a £9bn deficit in its pension scheme over the next 17 years. 2 March 2010 BSkyB, Carphone Warehouse and Cable & Wireless yesterday attacked proposals to allow BT to increase its wholesale prices by 4pc. The rivals claimed that BT only has itself to blame for its huge pension deficit and said their customers should not be forced to pay higher prices to help BT pay for its mistakes.