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Local Government Pension Scheme (PO-4243)

Complainant: Mr Colin J Smith
Complaint Topic: Interpretation of scheme rules/policy terms
Ref: PO-4243
Outcome: Not upheld
Respondent: St Albans City & District Council
Type: Pension complaint or dispute
Date:

Subject

Mr Smith says that the Council, his former employer, failed to take into account the car allowance and mileage payments he received when it determined the pensionable pay used to calculate the benefits available to him from the LGPS on his redundancy and also to calculate pension contributions to the LGPS.

The Pensions Ombudsman’s determination and short reasons

I do not find in Mr Smith’s favour because the regulations governing the LGPS at the time that Mr Smith was made redundant exclude the car allowance and mileage payments from the definition of pensionable pay.

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