Total membership

This is the amount of membership that counts, as detailed below, for:
Working out whether you are entitled to a benefit
The number of years and days that you have been a LGPS member as a councillor or elected mayor.
Working out the amount of your personal benefits
The number of years and days that you have been a LGPS member as a councillor or elected mayor, but excluding any membership in respect of which you are already in receipt of a Local Government pension, or in respect of which you hold a Local Government deferred pension which relates to an earlier period of membership of the Scheme as a councillor or elected mayor, or in respect of any other earlier period of membership of the Scheme as a councillor or elected mayor which has not been aggregated with your current period of membership.
Any membership granted by way of ill health enhancement.