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'Toxic' pensions system costing workers £2000

Around 50,000 Scottish private-sector workers retiring each year are losing up to £100 million annually because of a "toxic" system of poor returns from retirement annuities.

JOANNE SEGARS: 'Every year a billion pounds disappears down the plughole.'
JOANNE SEGARS: 'Every year a billion pounds disappears down the plughole.'

A report today predicts the losses suffered by people locked out of lucrative final-salary schemes could treble to £3 billion over the next decade as up to eight million workers face being automatically enrolled into workplace pensions from later this year.