Pension Scheme Age Discrimination remedy Claim Form

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Is anyone able to shed any light on the LPPA Remediable Service Statement that arrived via email. There seems to be pages of explanations and none of them make it clear (to me) whether I’m going to benefit or be penalised as a result of the court ruling. I retired 9 years ago after 32 years service. TIA

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Is anyone able to shed any light on the LPPA Remediable Service Statement that arrived via email. There seems to be pages of explanations and none of them make it clear (to me) whether I’m going to benefit or be penalised as a result of the court ruling. I retired 9 years ago after 32 years service. TIA

If you are an OOT fire brigades union member contact them, if not I would I would be surprised if they don’t put something out regarding this. If you are an ex fire brigades union member I would even consider contacting them. I hope you get this sorted out.

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If you retired 9 years ago at 32 years service I guess you was 50 years old. This means you received your full 92 pension. basically choose stay as you are or if you choose the remedial option. this will mean you owe them a lump sum payment and get a worse monthly pension.
There is only one reason to take the remedial offer if you received your full 92 pension and are NOT married to your partner. This would give them a pension if you die. If you are married to your partner they will get a pension on the 92 scheme if you die.
If you are not married you can still get married and they will get the widows pension

[notnarcissus]

If you retired 9 years ago at 32 years service I guess you was 50 years old. This means you received your full 92 pension. basically choose stay as you are or if you choose the remedial option. this will mean you owe them a lump sum payment and get a worse monthly pension.
There is only one reason to take the remedial offer if you received your full 92 pension and are NOT married to your partner. This would give them a pension if you die. If you are married to your partner they will get a pension on the 92 scheme if you die.
If you are not married you can still get married and they will get the widows pension

You're pretty good. Have we ever conversed?

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We might have done, been on here since the 30k days. But I doubt I can remember

[moss121]

Has anyone heard about the hurt to feelings payment being made in Scotland.. it's underway in England I believe.

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Date: 20 December 2024

To: All Members

Dear Brother/Sister,

Injury to Feelings Claims: Update

We are writing to provide you with an update on the employment tribunal litigation that concerns

claims of age discrimination arising from the transitional pension arrangements that were

implemented with effect from 1 April 2015.

The information in this circular only concerns members who have a valid claim in those proceedings

and you will know whether this applies to you or not from correspondence you will have received

from Walkers Solicitors or Thompsons Solicitors who now have conduct of the claims going forward

following the retirement of Ivan Walker at Walkers Solicitors.

Please note that FBU Head Office is limited in what it can say by way of providing updates as

discussions regarding the settlement of these claims are without prejudice. It is on this basis that

most contact will come direct from our solicitors and all those with claims will know how they can

raise any queries directly with our solicitors who are best placed to respond.

Notwithstanding that important point of principle, which if not upheld could derail settlement

negotiations as a whole, I am pleased to inform members that a binding agreement has finally been

reached in relation to a large cohort of members who are in the first wave of proceedings lodged in

2015. We understand that there are 3250 members whose cases will settle as a consequence of

this agreement.

The members concerned will be sent an email from Thompsons Solicitors to confirm the

position, the email will detail next steps regarding payments to be made under that agreement

and when they will be paid out.

Please do not contact our solicitors about this agreement as you will receive an email if you are a

named claimant in that first tranche of settlements. Given the Christmas period you may not receive

that email until the new year.

If you are not in the first tranche of settlements but had a claim lodged in 2015 in the first wave this

will mean that your claim still needs to be verified by the Government Legal Department (GLD) beforeyour claim can be settled. Verification is undertaken when your details are sent to GLD once you

have accepted the COT3 terms. If your claim is deemed as being valid it will then form part of a

subsequent settlement agreement under this wave. We do not have a precise timescale as to when

the next agreement will follow but you will be updated as soon as there is something substantive to

report. It is anticipated the next agreement will follow in the early part of next year.

It is likely three or four agreements will be needed to address the position of all the Claimants in the

first wave. The agreement you fall under will depend on the circumstances of your case and in

particular when you came forward to provide instructions.

We are grateful for your patience in waiting to hear from our solicitors for further news on this and

would appreciate it if you did not contact them asking for updates unless you have something very

specific to raise. Both they and the union are aware members want this litigation resolved as quickly

as possible and Thompsons are working as hard as they can to achieve that. However, the

verification checks are not something over which we exert direct control.

In respect of all those of you whose claims were lodged in subsequent waves after 2015,

discussions are still ongoing with the Government Legal Department about a resolution. As these

negotiations are taking place on a without prejudice basis, we are not going to comment on them

over a public forum.

At the present time there are no substantive developments to detail other than to say our solicitors

are engaged in a process which has required the submission of evidence from sample Claimants in

order to explore the parameters of a settlement agreement. All the parties engaged in this process

believe agreement can be reached and our solicitors will update you when there is a material

development.

Members will be aware there has been a change in government and this has inevitably led to some

delay but we hope there will be material developments on these cohorts of claims in the new year.

Given the progress that has been made, the union has asked for the cases to remain stayed to see

if agreement can be reached in light of what has already been achieved. The advice we have

received is that this is in the best interests of all the members concerned. However, this position will

be subject to on-going review and will be reversed if we cannot get to a point where we think we

ought to be in the negotiations.

It is a significant achievement to have finally reached a point where the first tranche of

claims lodged in 2015 have settled and the Union remains steadfast in its commitment to

bring all these cases to conclusion as quickly as it can.


https://www.fbu.org.uk/sites/default/fil...0471MR.pdf

[moss121]

Thanks for this,