{"id":343425,"date":"2026-03-23T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343425\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:18:07","slug":"retired-sheffield-photographer-demands-answers-over-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/343425\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Sheffield photographer demands answers over pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stocks, whose story was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk\/what-happened-to-ian-stocks-pension\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first covered by The Sheffield Tribune last year, external<\/a>, told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s been an eight-year wild goose chase to find out where my pension has gone, when I should have been enjoying my retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s always there in the background. I enjoy an active life outdoors, cycling, walking and running, but it keeps coming back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s always lots of emails and information to process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a ruling in 2022, the Pensions Ombudsman said Stocks could claim a refund of his own personal contributions to his pension pot from when he worked at the county council between 1981 and 1986, plus \u00a3500 in compensation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has since been offered a payout of just under \u00a38,000 by the SYPA, but Stocks said this was &#8220;dramatically undervaluing&#8221; what he believed he was due, mainly because it did not include employer contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stocks, whose story was first covered by The Sheffield Tribune last year, external, told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-343425","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\/343425","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=343425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}