Can I make extra contributions to increase my benefits?
Yes.
You can increase your benefits by:
- paying additional contributions (known as Additional Pension Contributions (APCs [1]) to buy extra LGPS pension, or
- making payments to the scheme’s Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) [2] arrangement, or
- paying contributions into a personal pension, stakeholder pension [3] or Free-standing AVC scheme (FSAVCs) [4] of your own choice.