Treasury confirms discriminatory rules to be fixed after Supreme Court ruling

The 2015 changes - which saw younger workers moved to less generous schemes while the oldest workers were able to continue accruing benefits in the more generous schemes as "transitional protection" - were ruled discriminatory by the UK's highest court last year. In a statement - published yesterday (15 July) - chief secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss confirmed pension scheme rules will need to be remedied across all public sector schemes, including those for the NHS, civil service, local government, teachers, police, armed forces, judiciary, and fire and rescue workers. The governme...