Consultation outcome

Firefighters' pension scheme

From:: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Published: 3 August 2011
Last updated: 7 June 2013 — See all updates

Download the full outcome

Amendments to the Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (1992) and New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (2006): summary of responses

Ref: ISBN 9781409839125

PDF, 130 KB, 26 pages

Detail of outcome

A summary of responses, and the government’s response to the consultation on proposed changes to the firefighters’ pension schemes in England.

Original consultation

Consultation description

This consultation sets out a number of proposed changes to the firefighters’ pension scheme and new firefighters’ pension scheme.

It includes the following key proposals:

the removal of rule A14, compulsory retirement on the grounds of efficiency
changes to the indexation of additional pension benefits
changes to the maximum communtation payment
proposals to deal with potential age discrimination
amendments to the medical and non-medical appeals processes
abatement of pensions
technical amendments and alignments with tax legislation

Documents

Amendments to the Firefighters' Pension Scheme 1992 and the New Firefighters' Pension Scheme 2006: consultation

Ref: ISBN 9781409830610

PDF, 546 KB, 56 pages

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