NHS Pension Scheme – Age Discrimination Reversal

We are coming towards the end of the process of reversing age discrimination in the 2015 NHS Pension Scheme.

In a nutshell, when the major changes to the NHS Pension Scheme came into effect, longer-serving members effectively received a longer period of grace in their old pension schemes before moving into the new, less generous 2015 Pension Scheme. In some cases, they did not have to move.

Because those members were largely older, this meant that younger workers, who had less time to build up more generous benefits in their old pension scheme, were discriminated against on the grounds of age. The McCloud judgment, amongst others, required the Government to rectify this discrimination.