Pensions update for retired officers

18 June 2020

Former officers who have retired or left Hertfordshire Constabulary since 2015 and were tapered or transferred onto the new CARE pension scheme are being asked if they want to be included in the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) Group Action for compensation.

This also applies to officers who do not have access to their police email addresses due to a career break or being on leave for a significant amount of time.

PFEW announced on 15 May that it was starting a compensation claim against the Government on behalf of members who were victims of discrimination and suffered any ‘injury to feeling’ as a result of changes to members’ pensions caused by the introduction of a new scheme in 2015.

Anyone wanting to be included in the Group Action must complete an online application questionnaire and should email the office to get a link to this form. The form must then be submitted by 17 July 2020.

The Group Action is being handled on PFEW’s behalf by leading lawyers Penningtons Manches Cooper. 

Once someone completes the questionnaire, there will be a validation process before they are contacted again via their email address.

Those eligible to join the action:

• Commenced payment of subscriptions within six months of joining the police service and have been a continuous subscribing member since that date (except for any period of unpaid leave, maternity leave or temporary promotion to the rank of superintendent) or until they exited the police service, and
• Were in service prior to and as at 1 April 2015 and in a police pension scheme at that time, and
• Transferred into the 2015 scheme immediately or who received tapered protection, and
• Did not therefore receive full protection from having to move into the 2015 scheme.