National Audit Office
Investigation into Police and Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Commutation factors
This looks at the chain of events which led to the government paying £711m in compensation to 34,000 pensioners who retired from the Police and Firefighters’ Pension Schemes between 2001 and 2006 without receiving their full pension entitlement. Due to the extent of the legal process in the case, some police and firefighters were retired for over 15 years before …
Published 1 Feb 2017
Value for Money
Department for Work and Pensions
Topics: Work, welfare and pensions
Summary
The NAO's wordsThis looks at the chain of events which led to the government paying £711m in compensation to 34,000 pensioners who retired from the Police and Firefighters’ Pension Schemes between 2001 and 2006 without receiving their full pension entitlement. Due to the extent of the legal process in the case, some police and firefighters were retired for over 15 years before they received their full pension entitlement from government.
Recommendations
No recommendations are indexed here. The report itself may contain some: see the report on nao.org.uk, linked above.