Pension Lifetime Allowance� The lifetime allowance (LTA) is the limit on how much you can build up in pension benefits over your lifetime while still receiving full tax benefits. The LTA is currently set at �1,073,100; if your pension pots go over the allowance, you�ll usually pay a charge.� Now the compensation cap is being removed; some members may be liable to pay a lifetime allowance charge on their PPF benefits.�
Since our last update in December new court proceedings have started against us, seeking to challenge, among other things, our intended approach for calculating any increases due to our members as a result of the ruling.
In July 2021 the Court of Appeal ruled the PPF compensation cap was unlawful on the grounds of age discrimination. They supported our approach to increasing payments to PPF and FAS members following the 2018 European Court of Justice judgment in the Hampshire case. We’ve been working on how to implement it.
The Administrative Court’s judgment in June 2020 upheld our general approach to calculating increases in compensation as a result of the Hampshire ruling. But it also said we need to make sure members and survivors each receive at least 50% on a cumulative basis of the actual value of the benefits their scheme would have provided.
The Court of Appeal has supported our approach for increasing payments to PPF and FAS members following the 2018 European Court of Justice judgment in the Hampshire case.
In April, we confirmed that we had started to pay increased benefits to PPF and FAS pensioners who were most affected by the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ’s) ruling because they had had their benefits adjusted by the Long Service Cap.
In September this year, we issued an update on our work to implement the Court of Appeal’s ruling that the compensation cap was unlawful, and to pay arrears to pensioners due increases as a result of the Hampshire ruling.
In our recent update about progress on uncapping PPF compensation, we still had to finalise whether to put a six-year time limit on arrears payments due to PPF and FAS pensioners. This followed the Court of Appeal’s judgments on the methodology for implementing the ECJ’s Hampshire decision and the PPF compensation cap. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and our Board have now finalised those decisions.
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