Onceapilot,
We support lots of things, all of the time (not always vocally where it makes sense to work behind the scenes.).We particularly try to ensure that service personnel are treated fairly and consistently. Here are just a few current issues. We support accurate and timely forecasts and have recently persuaded DBS to change the standard of what they push out every day, to the benefit of thousands of those awaiting pensions. We support the correct inclusion of LE supplement in pensions calculations to those promoted from the ranks under the 75 Scheme, and by our advocacy have secured an increase in pension for dozens of pensioners in this position; we intervened over the sudden removal of reckonable service from Medical & Dental Officers prior to them being fully registered with the GMC – an inconsistent decision that has recently been rescinded; we support the reinstitution of Short Term Family Pensions and are now deep in discussion with the MoD to try and achieve this; we support better arrangements for explaining the significance of nomination forms and updating them ; and of course we support the MoD coming clean about whatever they are cooking up by way of a brand new pension scheme. And above all we support our members, who come to us every week with hundreds of pensions enquiries, many complex and personal, and some requiring formal appeals which we help with, usually successfully. What we do not support are plausible-sounding but incorrect statements such as the one behind this petition.