PSPC – your campaigning voice

PSPC and its constituent organisations are working to ensure that politicians and the public are better informed about the facts of public service pensions and the case for pensions reform to protect pensioners against poverty.

PSPC’s 2010 Manifesto for Public Service Pensioners sets out the issues of priority for the PSPC’s members and constituent organisations in the light of the attacks on public service pensions. The Manifesto was published at PSPC’s March 2010 Conference which brought together the then pensions spokespersons of all three major political parties to discuss public service pensions and support for pensioners generally.

Key PSPC priorities are to:

Protect accrued public service pension rights and maintain the agreements concluded from 2005 onwards
Immediately increase basic state pension to the minimum income guarantee level (£132.60) and index to the higher of prices or earnings
By 2020, increase the basic state pension to at least the official poverty level (currently £165)a week and index to the higher of prices or earnings.
Protect age related tax allowance for pensioners