You’ll have choices to make depending how you’re affected by Transitional Protection. Your Remediable Service Statement (RSS) will provide you the opportunity to make a choice on whether to take your remedy period service in the final salary or career average scheme.

I've yet to retire

You won’t need to make your choice on your remedy period service until you apply for retirement. You’ll receive your RSS as part of the application process.

However, a Benefit Statement RSS will be available to request from February 2025 through My Pension Online (MPO). If you've not yet registered, then visit our registration page.

This will help you to start considering your retirement options in advance of any retirement application.

I've already retired

Thanks for your patience as we implement the Transitional Protection remedy. We’re in the process of preparing and sending Remediable Service Statements (RSSs) to retired members affected by the changes, which will allow them to choose between having service during the remedy period as final salary or career average scheme.

Due to circumstances beyond our control as scheme administrator, we’ve had to revise our original delivery timelines. Where pension benefits were already in payment when the legislation took effect on 1 October 2023, complex issues were identified early this year regarding pension tax and interest processes that required lengthy investigation by the DfE. This was with support from HM Treasury, HMRC, legal advisors and the other affected public service schemes (as it’s important to provide as consistent a remedy as possible to the identified discrimination). IT Development and staff training. could only continue once these queries were resolved.

We’ve now resumed issuing rectification RSSs to retired members, however due to the volumes it won’t be possible to issue all of them by the end of March 2025. Our current forecast is that we’ll issue approximately 125,000 RSSs for retired members by September 2025, with over 101,000 of those issued between October 2024 and the end of March 2025.

More information on the delays can be found in our news story.

I have rollback choices

If you:

• took out any flexibilities (Faster Accrual, Buy Out or career average scheme Additional Pension), or
• worked any overtime or excess service in the career average scheme during the remedy period,

You’re required to make a decision as these aren’t available in the final salary scheme. To make this choice, we’ll be issuing you with a Rollback Choices Statement between October 2023 and January 2025.

You’ll need to make a choice regarding these flexibilities in addition to deciding which scheme any remedy period service will be in before you retire.

You don’t need to pay to claim your remedy benefits and make your choice. Using a paid service doesn’t mean you’ll get your choice any sooner or affect the options you have.