Consultation outcome

Pension Protection Fund: draft regulations to take account of bridging pensions

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

We published the government response to this consultation on 29 January 2018.


Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on the draft Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

Bridging pensions allow individuals who retire before reaching State Pension age to be paid a higher rate of pension initially. 皇冠体育app bridging pension then reduces when the individual begins to receive their State Pension or reaches an age specified in their pension scheme rules.

皇冠体育app draft Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 would allow the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to take account of bridging pensions by smoothing the amount of PPF compensation over the individual鈥檚 lifetime.

This consultation seeks views on:

  • the implications of the government鈥檚 preferred option to allow the PPF to take account of bridging pensions by smoothing the amount of PPF compensation over the individual鈥檚 lifetime
  • whether the draft regulations achieve their intended purpose

We welcome comments from:

  • pension scheme trustees, administrators and managers
  • members of defined benefit occupational pension schemes
  • PPF levy payers
  • other interested parties

Documents

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Updates to this page

Published 31 August 2017
Last updated 29 January 2018 show all updates
  1. Added a link to the government response to the consultation.

  2. Added a link to a technical consultation on the draft Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 2018.

  3. First published.

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