Hi Granny49 ,
Thanks for your reply. You state that you did not opt out, was this because you were not in a final salary scheme? If you were in a final salary ie DB contracted out scheme you did have the option to opt out, but if you did, then in most schemes you were not allowed to join the pension scheme if you did not agree to contract out,I think the only exception was if you had elected to pay the reduced NI ie married woman's NI rate. I would be interested to know what kind of scheme you were in and when you joined it as you may have been contracted out without realizing it.
The strange thing about this lack of GMP increases is that if you look at any other Government Dept that mention GMP increases, ie Hansard,Cabinet,Treasury Inland Revenue, House of Commons Library and National Audit Office you will see that they all state that the DWP/State pay all or part of GMP increases as do every single public service pension scheme booklet. Most of them can be seen on Google. The Government are trying to put forward this change by stealth and as I said before I just can't understand why the Pensions Industry have not picked up on this subject.