Policy background Public service pensions reform and the Court of Appeal’s judgment Local government schemes
A different approach was adopted for the Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS), where all members still accruing benefits were moved to new schemes either on 1 April 2014, for the LGPS England and Wales, or 1 April 2015, for the LGPS for Scotland and Northern Ireland. In those schemes, older members in service on 31 March 2012 were provided with an underpin - giving them the better of accrual as if under their previous legacy scheme provisions or under the reformed scheme provisions, for pensionable service from the date they moved to their new LGPS scheme.
	For these LGPS schemes there will be no change that service should be under reformed schemes. However, the underpin will be extended to all those members affected by the discrimination. The underpin will not apply to service after 31 March 2022 or for service rendered after the member’s Normal Pension Age (NPA) 5 , if earlier.