Public service pensions – the cost control mechanism
Looks at the mechanism introduced under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 to control unexpected changes in the cost of public service pensions
- Looks at the mechanism introduced under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 to control unexpected changes in the cost of public service pensions
Following the reports of the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission, chaired by Lord Hutton of Furness, the Government legislated in the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 for a framework for new public service pension schemes, to be introduced from April 2015 (2014 for local government).
- The new structure is designed to manage some of the costs and risks to the Exchequer of providing public service pensions.
- On 25 April 2020, a group of four public service unions the Fire Brigades Union, Prison Officers Association, Public and Commercial Services Union and the GMB announced that they had launched a legal challenge to the pause of the cost control mechanism.
- For more on the reforms, see CBP 5768 Public service pensions the 2015 reforms (April 2020).