Sorry for drift, but if you thought my last post numbers were good.
About 2 years ago, the Actuaries got involved and changed the numbers, the fellow who wanted to opt for the 18K PA pension and was expecting 125k tax free cash got an uplift of the 125k to about 143k because the Actuaries said it would be more fair.
So as private pensions slide down, public pensions slide up, it must be fair !!!!