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PO determination on failure to provide member with explanation of benefit calculation (PO-12752)

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Published on: 08 August 2017

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What were the facts?
What did the Adjudicator of the Pensions Ombudsman decide?
What was the Pension Ombudsman’s decision?
What are the implications of this determination?

Article summary

Pensions analysis: The Pensions Ombudsman upheld a complaint from a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme that her benefit entitlements had been miscalculated, and that questions concerning the matter raised with both the member’s former employer and the pension scheme’s administrators had not been fully answered either during the IDRP or with the PEnsions Ombudsman. Wyn Derbyshire of gunnercooke LLP looks at the decision.

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