Campaigning for the past
There are several important issues which affect existing pensioners, and especially the more elderly.
Resolution is very difficult as it generally goes against successive governments’ insistence that there will be no retrospection in legislation across the entire public sector. We argue this strongly and use the concept of the Unique Nature of Military Service to justify our arguments on your behalf. Nevertheless we must be realistic and understand that some victims of past unfairness will never be satisfied as the necessary funds simply do not exist in the Defence Budget to satisfy the remit. Our policy is to fight campaigns which we believe have some chance of success in the current financial climate, and our present campaign – Justice for Widows – aims to stop the confiscation of the pension of a non-attributable* widow or partner on the AFPS 75 scheme who remarries or co-habits later in life.
* Non-attributable means that her former husband did not die on Service duty. Those who died on duty are closed as attributable and pensions are not confiscated on remarriage or co-habitation.
