In our recent update about progress on uncapping PPF compensation, we still had to finalise whether to put a six-year time limit on arrears payments due to PPF and FAS pensioners. This followed the Court of Appeal’s judgments on the methodology for implementing the ECJ’s Hampshire decision and the PPF compensation cap. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and our Board have now finalised those decisions.
In September this year, we issued an update on our work to implement the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the compensation cap was unlawful, and to pay arrears to pensioners due increases as a result of the Hampshire ruling.
In July 2021 the Court of Appeal ruled the PPF compensation cap was unlawful on the grounds of age discrimination. They supported our approach to increasing payments to PPF and FAS members following the 2018 European Court of Justice judgment in the Hampshire case. We’ve been working on how to implement it.
The Court of Appeal has supported our approach for increasing payments to PPF and FAS members following the 2018 European Court of Justice judgment in the Hampshire case.
The trustee of the Old British Steel Pension Scheme (OBSPS) has announced it has entered into a buy-in contract, a form of insurance policy for pension schemes.
The Administrative Court’s judgment in June 2020 upheld our general approach to calculating increases in compensation as a result of the Hampshire ruling. But it also said we need to make sure members and survivors each receive at least 50% on a cumulative basis of the actual value of the benefits their scheme would have provided.
We’ve previously announced that we’d started making increased payments to all pensioners who were most affected by the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ or CJEU) ruling, because they were subject to the PPF compensation cap (either the standard cap, or the long service cap), which on its own had reduced their benefits to less than 50% of those they had accrued.
In April, we confirmed that we had started to pay increased benefits to PPF and FAS pensioners who were most affected by the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ’s) ruling because they had had their benefits adjusted by the Long Service Cap.
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