Mrs Hodkinson was a Nightingale police officer, a front-line responder helping victims of sexual assault, with Greater Manchester Police, when breast cancer forced her to take retirement early in 2018, aged 48.
She discovered she was owed potentially thousands of pounds in extra pension, after courts ruled protections from change for older workers, but not for younger workers like herself, were discriminatory.
“It makes me feel angry really,” she says. “Being a police officer is a very difficult job. The pension is the thing that keeps many officers working.”
In response, the pension administrators tasked with making the complicated calculations say they are sympathetic and will speed up the process now they have received government advice on tax and interest.
