The precise variety of pensions above £100,000 being paid by the Worcestershire Pension Fund is 2 – and neither is a former Worcestershire County Council worker. The fund, which manages the Native Authorities Pension Scheme within the county, has apologised for its mistake, which was made in response to a Freedom of Data request from …
The precise variety of pensions above £100,000 being paid by the Worcestershire Pension Fund is 2 – and neither is a former Worcestershire County Council worker.
The fund, which manages the Native Authorities Pension Scheme within the county, has apologised for its mistake, which was made in response to a Freedom of Data request from The Telegraph.
That determine had already been reported by The Telegraph earlier than the error was picked up, together with two different incorrect statistics.
The fund stated it had 588 pensioners receiving pensions above £50,000 in 2025/26 when it truly had 88.
Of those, 23 are former county council workers.
It had additionally informed The Telegraph the typical annual pension paid to its members within the 2025/26 monetary 12 months was £8,000 when, in reality, it was £5,839.
A spokesperson for Worcestershire Pension Fund stated: “We’ve recognized information, equipped in response to a Freedom of Data request (FOI), was incorrect as a consequence of human error throughout the preparation of our response.
“Duplication in figures resulted in significantly larger numbers being quoted for which, we have now each apologised for and shared the proper information.
“We are able to affirm that this uncommon error was restricted to the FOI dataset and doesn’t have an effect on pension funds, member information, funding, governance, monetary reporting, or funding reporting.”
Worcestershire Pension Fund is a funded pension scheme with belongings of greater than £4.5 billion and is totally self-financing.
Pension funds are met from employer and worker contributions along with the funding returns generated on these belongings quite than council tax revenue.
It has greater than 70,000 members and greater than 22,000 pensioners, in response to its newest report.
