THE government was urged today to stop “dragging its heels” on improving the pensions of firefighters and other public-sector workers.

In a letter to Treasury Minister Rishi Sunak MP the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has demanded that the government implement a court decision to increase pension benefits for firefighters and public-sector workers.

The root of the dispute stems back to 2015 when the government amended firefighter pensions with a new proposal that meant older firefighters were kept on better pension schemes while younger firefighters were moved on to schemes that would offer less.