\n The actual number of pensions above \u00a3100,000 being paid by the Worcestershire Pension Fund is two \u2013 and neither is a former Worcestershire County Council employee.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fund, which manages the Local Government Pension Scheme in the county, has apologised for its mistake, which was made in response to a Freedom of Information request from The Telegraph.\n<\/p>\n
\n That figure had already been reported by The Telegraph before the mistake was picked up, along with two other incorrect statistics.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fund said it had 588 pensioners receiving pensions above \u00a350,000 in 2025\/26 when it actually had 88.\n<\/p>\n
\n Of these, 23 are former county council employees.\n<\/p>\n
\n It had also told The Telegraph the average annual pension paid to its members in the 2025\/26 financial year was \u00a38,000 when, in fact, it was \u00a35,839.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Worcestershire Pension Fund said: “We have identified data, supplied in response to a Freedom of Information request (FOI), was incorrect due to human error during the preparation of our response.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Duplication in figures resulted in considerably higher numbers being quoted for which, we have both apologised for and shared the correct data.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We can confirm that this unusual error was limited to the FOI dataset and does not affect pension payments, member records, funding, governance, financial reporting, or investment reporting.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Worcestershire Pension Fund is a funded pension scheme with assets of more than \u00a34.5 billion and is entirely self-financing.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pension payments are met from employer and employee contributions together with the investment returns generated on those assets rather than council tax income.\n<\/p>\n
\n It has more than 70,000 members and more than 22,000 pensioners, according to its latest report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actual number of pensions above \u00a3100,000 being paid by the Worcestershire Pension Fund is two \u2013 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}