Consultation outcome

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

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 31 August 2017
• Last updated: 29 January 2018 — See all updates

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.

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Original consultation

Summary

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

This consultation ran from
10am on 31 August 2017 to 11:45pm on 1 October 2017

Consultation description

On 17 November 2017 we published the draft Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 2018: technical consultation.

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

The 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’s lifetime.

This consultation seeks views on:

• the implications of the government’s preferred option to allow the PPF to take account of bridging pensions by smoothing the amount of PPF compensation over the individual’s 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

Draft regulations to allow the Pension Protection Fund to take account of bridging pension payment levels

PDF, 159 KB, 15 pages

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The draft Pension Protection Fund (Compensation) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

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Published 31 August 2017
Last updated 29 January 2018 + show all updates

1. 29 January 2018

   Added a link to the government response to the consultation.

2. 17 November 2017

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

3. 31 August 2017

   First published.