A former civil servant missed out on a year’s worth of redundancy compensation due to her age despite having been four years away from the state pension age. Lucinda*, 65, was impacted detrimentally by a “discriminatory” pension rule linked to the Civil Service Compensation scheme. Despite having been a civil servant for nearly 20 years, she lost a year’s worth of redundancy compensation due to her age. She was made redundant from her HMRC role at the age of 62 in December 2021, while caring for her partner before they passed away. Under current rules, someone aged 59 years and 11 months can g…