BMA judicial review over cost of government’s pension mistakes is dismissed

[...]all members were moved back to their legacy schemes until April 2022 and will have the choice of moving to either scheme for the remedy period at the point of retirement. In 2021 the Treasury published directions seeking to use the “surplus” arising from the 2016 valuation of the NHS pension sc...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2024-04, Vol.385, p.q935
Main Author: Rimmer, Abi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age discrimination
Humans
Judicial reviews
News
Pension plans
Pensions
Public sector
State Medicine - economics
State Medicine - legislation & jurisprudence
United Kingdom
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Summary:[...]all members were moved back to their legacy schemes until April 2022 and will have the choice of moving to either scheme for the remedy period at the point of retirement. In 2021 the Treasury published directions seeking to use the “surplus” arising from the 2016 valuation of the NHS pension scheme, which should have resulted in improved benefits for members, to finance the cost of the McCloud remedy. “Having been found to have committed unlawful age discrimination when reforming the NHS pension scheme in 2015, the government is trying to change the rules to make NHS staff pay for its mistakes.
ISSN:1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.q935