PO determination awarding unreduced early retirement on voluntary redundancy (Fenteman-Coates PO-670)

Table of contents

• Original news
• Summary
• What were the facts?
• What was the Pension Ombudsman’s decision?
• What is the impact of this determination?

Article summary

Pensions analysis: The Deputy Pensions Ombudsman has found that an NHS employee was entitled to an unreduced early retirement pension, as she had been dismissed by reason of redundancy despite taking voluntary redundancy. Martin Scott of gunnercooke LLP looks at the decision.