Pension campaigners are preparing to take the Department of Work and Pensions to court for a second time over its failure to provide proper compensation for workers who lost their pensions when their occupational schemes wound up.
Solicitors acting for the Pensions Action Group (PAG) have written to the DWP notifying it of the organisation’s intention to seek a Judicial Review of the recent decisions to extend the Financial Assistance Scheme. Dr Ros Altmann, independent consultant and former pensions adviser to the government, says campaigners have given the DWP one week to respond to the letter before claim, and will be applying for an expedited hearing based on the urgency of the situation. She says the Judicial Review will focus on two main arguments by campaigners: The extensions to the FAS do not comp...
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