There are four contingent decision areas. These are decisions that would have been made differently but for the discrimination. The areas are:

• Opt Outs – officers who opted out due to the remedy can apply for their pensionable service for that period to be reinstated. (Twelve Months)
  • Honoraria – officers who made a choice around honoraria that they would not have made if they had known of the remedy position can revisit that decision. (Three Months)
  • Additional service – officers can apply to purchase additional service in their legacy scheme if they meet the criteria to do so. (Twelve Months)
  • Transfers – officers can apply to transfer pensions in or out. (Six months)

The dates in brackets are the time limits for making an application, the time limit is from the receipt of the remediable service statement.

NPCC-Member-Remedy-Factsheet-Contingent-Decisions-v2.0.pdf

If you want to make an application then please get it in as soon as possible and if you are outside of the time limit ask for some latitude due to the less than smooth rollout of remedy.

This provision has been paused as the Home Office do not feel the legislation as drafted meets the policy intent of putting officers back to the position they would have been but for remedy.

There are three affected cohorts:

• Those that opted out on or before 31 March 2015 – can only be returned to the 2006 scheme;
• Those that opted out on or after 1 April 2015 and did not opt back into the scheme on or before 31 March 2022 – can be returned to the 1987 scheme;
• Those that opted out on or after 1 April 2015 but opted back in within the remedy period – opted out service can be the 1987 scheme, the period from opting back in to 31 March 2022 is the 2006 scheme.

There is nothing stopping the middle cohort being dealt with by forces now.

PFEW’s policy position is that the legislation should be changed to meet the policy intent. There appears to be a reluctance to do that and the Home Office are consulting on a compensation framework to deal with affected officers. As of late September 2025, we await their proposals which we will publish as soon as we can.