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PO determination on compensation for loss of enjoyment of underpaid pension (McKinney 84793/2)

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Published on: 16 May 2012

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Article summary

Pensions analysis: In McKinney (84793/2), the Deputy Pensions Ombudsman partly upheld a complaint brought by a widow against the trustees of her late husband’s pension scheme who argued she had been inadequately compensated for financial and non-financial losses attributable to the underpayment of her spouse’s pension for a number of years. Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP looks at the decision.

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