Teachers' Pensions problem. Need to find expert legal advice.

retiredProf

Yes, got it 4jbl7 and have now responded - many thanks.

Malthusian

TVAS said:

We can't pay married or divorced women their correct basic state pension, we cannot pay teachers their correct pension. Why can't we do operations properly in this country. 

The saying "to err is human" is from Latin (errare humanum est). If something's in Latin it's probably not a recent phenomenon.

Silvertabby

Malthusian said:

TVAS said:

We can't pay married or divorced women their correct basic state pension, we cannot pay teachers their correct pension. Why can't we do operations properly in this country. 

The saying "to err is human" is from Latin (errare humanum est). If something's in Latin it's probably not a recent phenomenon.

Mistakes happen.  What used to annoy me back in my LGPS days was the almost universal member attitude to 'mistakes'.  If the estimate was just a couple of quid under what they thought it would be, they would be on the 'phone querying it.  In the case of an over estimate, no matter how ridiculous, they would say ' I just assumed that you knew what you were doing'.


One LGPS case was a lady who was already in receipt of a LGPS widow's pension when she retired.  In round figures, let's say that both pensions were £10K per year.  When she retired, she was sent a letter stating her total LGPS entitlements - £20K per year, being £1,666 per month.

Then Sod's law kicked in, and payroll set up her new pension under its own reference number, as well as adding it to her widow's pension reference.

This was finally picked up by a routine audit, 5 years later.  After being informed of the error, and the proposed recovery process, she claimed that when she received (much) more than she had expected, she just assumed that the letter had been wrong - and that 'we knew what we were doing'  

She did admit that if she had only received £10K per she would have queried it...... This was heading to the Ombudsman at the time I retired, so I don't know what the outcome was.