PSPC – your campaigning voice

PSPC and its constituent organisations are working to ensure that politicians and the public are better informed about the facts of public service pensions and the case for pensions reform to protect pensioners against poverty.

PSPC’s 2010 Manifesto for Public Service Pensioners sets out the issues of priority for the PSPC’s members and constituent organisations in the light of the 2010 General Election. The Manifesto was published at PSPC’s March 2010 Conference which brought together the pensions spokespersons of all three major political parties to discuss public service pensions and support for pensioners generally.

Key PSPC priorities are to:

• Protect accrued public service pension rights and maintain the agreements concluded from 2005 onwards
• Immediately increase basic state pension to the minimum income guarantee level (£132.60) and index to the higher of prices or earnings
• By 2020, increase the basic state pension to at least the official poverty level (currently £165)a week and index to the higher of prices or earnings.
• Abolish the income limit beyond which age tax allowances are clawed back for pensioners