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And coming up, could your private sector retirement fund be sacrificed to protect the public sector's gold-plated pensions?

The latest budget speculation has workers worried. Also today,

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Investment involves risk. But first, another day. Another budget speculation story. This time it's about

private versus public sector pensions. Could there be a raid on private sector workers' retirement funds

in the budget,

while gold-plated public sector pensions are protected?

Now, according to this is money calculations,

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