TENS of thousands of people were fleeced when greedy firms and commission-hungry salesmen encouraged them to leave sound company pensions schemes and take out less-good personal pensions in the late Eighties and early Nineties.
The culprits have been ordered to compensate their customers.
But they have been mighty slow to make amends - some 600,000 people are still owed at least £2billion.
Now, the government threatens really tough sanctions - ranging from shaming firms and fining those responsible to sacking the main offenders and even closing companies down.
Quite right, too.
These slow-to-compensate grabbers need the whip cracked at them to speed up their compensation payments.
For they were mighty quick to snatch trusting people's money in the first place.
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