Part 1: Public Service Pension Schemes Chapter 3: Local Government Schemes Section 80: Pension credit members
Section 80 provides for scheme regulations to make provision regarding pension credit members. Pension sharing orders for divorces or dissolutions of civil partnerships generally award the member’s ex-spouse a percentage of the value of the pension at the time of the divorce. The value is expressed as a Cash Equivalent Transfer Value (CETV). The ex-spouse/civil partner then becomes a member of the pension scheme in their own right and is known as the pension credit member, with a pension equivalent to the credit. As a result of the remedy, it is possible that the value of the pension at the time of the divorce/dissolution would have been different had the member always been a member of the alternative scheme for the remedy period. This means that even if the percentage quoted in the pension sharing order remains the same, the actual amount credited to the pension credit member may have been different.
	This power therefore enables the responsible authority for a local government new scheme to amend provisions to award any additional credit due to the pension credit member as a result of the remedy. However, it does not give schemes the power to amend the pension sharing order itself.
	To ensure that this power is applied consistently with other public service pension schemes, section 85 requires the power to be exercised in accordance with Treasury directions.