General Election 2019:

PSPC Manifesto for Public Sector Pensioners

The PSPC and its constituent organisations, representing over one million public sector pensioners, are working to ensure that politicians and the public are better informed about the facts about public service pensions. We also campaign to improve the State Pension and protect universal pensioner benefits in order to ensure that current public service pensioners, and working public servants who will be future pensioners, are able to enjoy retirement with dignity and financial security.

The PSPC has launched its 2019 Manifesto for Public Service Pensioners in the run up to the General Election on 12 December setting out the issues of priority for the PSPC's members and constituent organisations in the light of the attacks on public service pensions and pressure to reduce the value of the State Pension and pensioner benefits in the name of “Intergenerational Fairness”. Simply making pensioners poorer will not in any way help younger people.

The PSPC is seeking a commitment from all political parties to:

• Retain the triple-lock of prices, earnings, or 2.5% for uprating all elements of the State Pension including S2P/SERPS
• Ensure that assumptions on State Pension age are based on adults spending one-third of adult life over state pension age as recommended by the Turner Commission, and not reduce that assumption to justify further increases in the State Pension age
• Ensure that any future changes in the State Pension age are with a minimum of 15 years notice
• Secure widows/widowers pensions for life in public sector schemes
• Entitlement to state pension increases for all pensioners living outside the UK, irrespective of the country in which they live
• Compensate through a transitional payment the women affected by changes in the State Pension Age under the 2011 Pensions Act
• Return responsibility from the BBC to the Government for funding the free TV licence for all over-75 pensioners
• Improve the value of all universal pensioner benefits, including the winter fuel allowance and Christmas bonus