IIn 2015, new laws introduced a new scheme for Firefighters – The Firefighters Pension Scheme 2015 (FPS 2015). Following a legal challenge known as McCloud, the courts determined that the protections given to members were age discriminatory, and began working on new legislation to remove this inequality. This has become known as remedy and provides affected members with the option to decide the right scheme for them.
In order to facilitate this, the National FPS website created Age Discrimination Remedy | Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (fpsmember.org)webpages to inform scheme members of all the facts regarding remedy. The website holds all information relating to remedy and Peninsula Pensions and Gloucestershire Fire & Rescue Service recommend members to visit the website.
Links to some of their key information is set out below. The website also provides information through a range of videos including a short video illustrating the changes to the scheme, and a timescale video.
Key Documents
| Remedy FAQ’s | A FAQ factsheet |
| Contribution Adjustment Factsheet | A factsheet detailing information about Contribution Adjustments |
| Contingent Decisions | A factsheet on Contingent Decisions |
| Contingent Decisions Member Claim Form | A fillable form to claim contingent decisions |
| Contingent Decisions Election form | A fillable form to elect contingent decisions |