An employing authority in the Local Government Pension Scheme was held to have no
duty to advise a member of the
option of applying for an enhanced ill -
health early retirement pension from active status on his redundancy, despite the fact that the LGPS had known that the member had taken sick leave in 2010 for a brain tumour.
The Ombudsman held that unless the member had specifically applied for an ill -
health pension, his employer was not under any
duty to advise him of his ill -
health benefit
options.