We are not able to advise individuals on personal choice and decisions in relation to applying for the VERS. General advice would be that if you apply it must be because you are genuinely prepared to accept the terms currently on offer.However, our solicitors have provided the following wording for individuals to use when accepting an offer. In the event that the terms of the scheme are successfully challenged through the courts, this might provide members affected with some route to recourse action.
Acceptance of VERS payment
I am accepting the redundancy and other payments made to me without prejudice to my right to claim that the changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme laid before Parliament on 21 December 2010 have not been lawfully made, and that I am entitled to payments in accordance with the terms of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme as it applied before those changes were purportedly made.
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