A ex-midwife is urging other former NHS workers to check they are not being underpaid in retirement after securing a five-fold increase in her pension, plus a £19,000 lump sum payment.
Luci Rozanski received the extra cash after a long battle with the NHS pension scheme, which is one of Britain’s biggest, with 1.7 million active members.
She and her husband, Nick, say the scheme had apparently “lost” 10 years of her pension records. They claim it is possible there could be many health service workers who have been “cheated” out of money they are due.
The former pensions minister Steve Webb, now a partner at actuaries LCP, told Guardian Money he strongly suspects Rozanski is “far from being alone” in losing out to the apparent error.
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