GMP equalisation: getting nearer to a solution

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This article was produced by Nabarro LLP, which joined CMS on 1 May 2017.

The issue of whether schemes have to equalise GMPs for men and women, and if so, how, has been rumbling along since the Pensions Ombudsman’s determination in Williamson in January 2000.

After a decade of uncertainty, in January 2010 the then Government announced that schemes should be equalising GMPs accrued since May 1990 and consultat