Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his planned timetable is for completing the remediation of Civil Service Pension Scheme cases arising from the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022.
Answered by Georgia Gould
The Court of Appeal ruled that the pension reforms and transitional protection arrangements introduced in 2015 following the enactment of the Public Service Pensions Scheme 2013, were directly discriminatory on the basis of age.
The 2015 Remedy (McCloud) Programme will end and rectify discrimination within the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) that arose when reformed public service pension schemes were introduced in 2015.
CSPS has 1.7 million members, of which 420,000 are in scope for the Remedy. This spans current civil servants who are accruing benefits, deferred members who have left service and/or the Scheme and pensioners (including partial and full retirees and those who retired on grounds of ill health or death in service).
The regulatory timeline for delivery of all Immediate Choice Remediable Service Statements (IC RSS) was by 31 March 2025 and 44% of statements were issued by that date, but in complex cases affecting 56% of the Immediate Choice population, the Cabinet Office has exercised its discretion to extend beyond this delivery date by 2 years. As this work progresses, more detail will become available about delivery dates within the next 2 years.
The Cabinet Office is continuing to stress to MyCSP the importance of meeting contractual performance levels and improving member experience.
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