Reform of Ill-health Retirement Benefits for Police in England and Wales: The roles of National Policy and Local Finance

Rowena Crawford and Richard Disney

No 18479, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We examine the ill-health retirement of police officers in the forces of England and Wales between 2002-03 and 2009-10. Differences in ill-health retirement rates across forces are statistically related to area-specific stresses of policing and force-specific differences in human resources policies. Reforms to police pension plans - in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill-health retirement from central government to local police authorities - occurred in the mid-2000s. We show these measures impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially on forces with above-average rates of retirement. We find that residual differences in post-2006 ill-health retirement rates across forces are related to their differential capacities to raise revenue from local property taxes.

JEL-codes: H75 J26 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
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Published as Reform of Police Pensions in England and Wales , Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney. in Retirement Benefits for State and Local Employees: Designing Pension Plans for the Twenty-First Century , Clark, Rauh, and Duggan. 2014

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