The Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing (DLUHC) has published their response to the consultation on amendments to the underpin. The consultation proposed changes to the underpin to address the discrimination found in the McCloud judgment and to ensure that it works effectively and consistently for all qualifying members. The consultation ended on 8 October 2020. Alongside the response, in collaboration with the Scheme Advisory Board, DLUHC published a factsheet summarising the remedy for members.

DLUHC expects to launch a further consultation this spring. The consultation will seek views on: issues that, because of the consultation responses, they have not yet made a final decision on (such as aggregation and flexible retirement), issues not included in the original consultation (such as compensation, interest and excess teacher service), and updated draft regulations. DLUHC will finalise the regulations after considering the responses to the further consultation. These will come into force on 1 October 2023, with backdated effect to 1 April 2014. You can access the consultation documents on the Scheme consultations page of www.lgpsregs.org.