Police Officers receiving index linked pension due to ill health retirement: FOI release

Information requested

In the past five years, how many Police Officers retired from Police Scotland on an ill health pension who were under the age of 55 years of age and retired on the lower tier. Of these retirees on the lower tier, how many were index linked from point of retirement?

Response

Between 01/04/2015 and 11/01/2023, 552 Police Officers retired from Police Scotland due to ill health. 222 Officers retired on a Police Pension Scheme which has no tier split.

Between 01/04/2015 and 11/01/2023, 191 Police Officers retired from Police Scotland on an ill health pension who were under 55 years of age and retired on the lower tier. 133 of these 191 were index linked from point of retirement.

For a more detailed breakdown, here are those values by year starting from 01/04/xxxx up until 31/03/xxxx+1 (financial years):

	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Total Retirements (ill health)	102	99	77	101	64	35	33	41
Lower tier Ill Health	23	27	26	26	23	12	22	32
Lower tier Index Linked	23	27	26	24	13	6	9	5
PPS Scheme (no tiers)	62	50	33	44	21	8	4	0

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