{"id":254339,"date":"2026-01-27T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:27:10","slug":"uniformed-frontline-workers-highlight-pension-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254339\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniformed frontline workers highlight &#8216;pension injustice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniformed state service workers from Dublin Fire Brigade, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the Prison Service and the Defence Forces are launching a campaign today to highlight what they are describing as a &#8220;critical pension injustice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Save Our Future&#8221; campaign meeting will see members and representatives from all four services tell of the financial hardship faced by personnel who retire after years of service.<\/p>\n<p>According to organisers, workers who joined after 2012 receive only a fraction of their pension until state pension age, despite having a statutory earlier retirement age in these frontline roles.<\/p>\n<p>SIPTU Organiser Geoff McAvoy said they are seeking the full restoration of the supplementary pension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the last General Election, promises to examine this issue were made, but these remain unfulfilled,&#8221; Mr McAvoy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an unacceptable slap in the face to thousands of dedicated frontline public service workers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uniformed state service workers from Dublin Fire Brigade, An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, the Prison Service and the Defence Forces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-254339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}