GMP Court Case

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The Union’s landmark legal case on the equalisation of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) has now been lodged with the High Court. Members will recall that the Bank, TBU and the Lloyds Banking Group Pensions Trustee Limited are bringing the case jointly. Three...

Lloyds Banking Group, the Trustee Board and TBU have agreed to refer the Union’s landmark legal action on Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) to the High Court. Given what’s gone on over the past 18 months with LBG, that’s not a sentence I expected to write. Under...

It’s a complex subject, so bear with me. The issue is about how pensions, in particular Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs), are increased under the rules of the Bank’s defined benefit (final salary) pension schemes. The outcome is straightforward. The pensions of...

The stakes couldn’t get much bigger. If our landmark legal action, which was covered widely in the national press, is successful then not only will up to 165,000 female members of the Bank’s defined benefit pension schemes be entitled to pension increases but some 5...