McCloud Judgement and Your LGPS Pension

The McCloud Judgement Factsheet

What is the McCloud judgment?

When the Government reformed public service pension schemes in 2014 and 2015, transitional protections were introduced for older members. In December 2018, the Court of Appeal ruled that younger members of the judicial and firefghters’ pension schemes had been unlawfully discriminated against because the protections did not apply to them.

This ruling is called the McCloud judgment, after a member of the Judicial Pension Scheme involved in the case. Because of the ruling, there will be changes to all public service pension schemes that provided transitional protection, including the LGPS.

The changes are called the McCloud remedy and are intended to remove the age discrimination found in the McCloud court case.

This factsheet summarises the McCloud judgment and changes the Government is making to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in England and Wales.