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More than 2,500 people out of work because of Covid-19 should have received their first emergency benefits payments by yesterday. Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, Community Affairs and Sport, said that the Accountant-General had paid out more t...

The Department of Social Insurance wishes to advise the public of the following: • Pension benefits automatically paid by direct bank deposit will still be made next week Wednesday, April 15th, 2020 as normal. • Pension cheques will...

A financial safety net for people left out of work due to Covid-19 was today backed by a charity for families. Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the unemployment scheme announced by Lovitta Foggo, the Minister of Labour, w...

A statistician and antiracism campaigner has been appointed as chairman of a group which will pave the way for a living wage in Bermuda. Cordell Riley will lead the wage commission, community minister Lovitta Foggo announced in the House yesterday. M...

Bermuda Chamber of Commerce has partnered with the CFA Society of Bermuda to present a “lunch and learn” session on changes to the island’s pension legislation. Peter Sousa, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Pension Commission, will discuss the ...

A retired Bermudian who complained after eight months without pension payments said she got her money yesterday only after she took her story to The Royal Gazette. However, another senior said he had the same problem with major arrears in his monthl...

A desperate senior couple living overseas have been left unable to enjoy their retirement after months of unpaid pensions. Nearing $9,000 out of pocket, Catherine and David Gregory, from Supply, North Carolina, will soon have gone eight months withou...

In his speech to the Progressive Labour Party and in his later curtailed statement to the House of Assembly last month, David Burt provided some details on the Government’s plans to allow holders of private pension funds to withdraw a portion of the ...

Pensions legislation that got turned away from the House of Assembly after the Opposition faulted its wording was approved on Friday after a redraft. The Bill, brought to the House last month by Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, all...

A Bill dealing with pension scheme payments was put on hold after a string of complaints from the One Bermuda Alliance at the House of Assembly. Wayne Furbert, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, agreed to “rise and report” on the National Pension S...

Legislation that will allow employees to take out a quarter of their private pensions as a lump sum on retirement was passed by MPs last Friday. The National Pension Scheme (Occupational Pensions) Amendment Act 2019 will now require non-Bermudian wor...

More than 730 employers or self-employed are behind with pension contributions at the end of 2017, the House of Assembly heard on Friday. But Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister, said 106 “compliance meetings” had been held with people behind on p...