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Listen to the National Chair's Comments on HMIP at HMP Liverpool on BBC Radio

Download and read the TUCG - Fair Pay Now leaflet attached.

If you still pay tax, even if it’s just on your pension, there’s a fairly high chance you may have paid too much.

POA is fighting for 12 members of the NTRG in defence of their Specialist Allowance payment. Despite the fact that the payment had been made for years to those in closed grades, the employer turned that on its head and decided that in fact it had all been a big mistake. From paying without objection it decided not only that the payments should never have been made, but the payments made to date should be recovered from the members.

Since the last edition of Gatelodge a number of Legal Claims have been progressed for POA members by Thompsons and the POA Legal Department. Compensation totalling over £277,780 in 25 cases has been awarded to our members.

One Wednesday evening a couple of weeks ago our Branch secretary Jordan, phoned me to tell that the Government Legal Department (GLD) had notified him that they had declined to represent four of our members at an inquest at Nottinghamshire Coroner’s Court because their evidence was likely to conflict with the GLD. line. ‘You mean the inquest coming up in November?’ I replied. ‘No the one coming up on Monday,’ he said. ‘What?’ I replied.

Pension Awareness Week is an annual five-day engagement event, aiming to empower members to better understand and value their Civil Service pension, and help them plan for their financial future.

We have written to new Colombian govt of @petrogustavo and @FranciaMarquezM to welcome important policies for peace and workers' rights. Alongside @JFColombia and trade union movement, we will continue to support the Colombian people’s efforts to build peace and social justice.

POA Members need a proper pay rise to end the recruitment and retention crisis. Please find the POA 2022 submission to the Prison Service Pay Review Body

Read the recent report on The Experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Ex-Prison Officers, by Joanna Binley