On 31 July, the Cabinet Office published proposals for reform of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme terms to take effect from 1 January 2010.  The proposal document, ‘Fairness for All’, was issued to the Civil Service trades unions and to other interested parties and was also made available through the Civil Service website

The Civil Service Compensation Scheme  has now announced the result of the responses to the 'Fairness for All' consultation

Over 18,000 civil servants took the opportunity to feed their views back to the Cabinet Office. Based on this consultation exercise the initial proposals have now been adjusted to take account of the views received.

The response document ‘Civil Service Compensation Scheme Reform - Response to Fairness for All consultation’ summarises the proposals set out in ‘Fairness for All’ and the main issues raised during the consultation.  It contains full details of the revised reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, together with the Cabinet Office’s comments on the issues raised.

The civil service pension site http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/my-civil-service/pensions

Letter to staff.

More details of the scheme  

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