Website News 2016

Registering for 'MyPension'

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From 2016, annual benefit statements will no longer be posted to members’ home addresses. Instead, at the end of August 2016, registered users of Merseyside Pension Fund’s 'MyPension' service, will be able to view their 2016 annual benefit statement online.

P60 certificates will be posted to LGPS pensioners in early May

A tax stamp

Merseyside Pension Fund will shortly issue a P60 certificate to everyone who received a pension from us in the 2015/2016 tax year.

The P60 is a summary of your pension and tax details for the 2015/2016 tax year which ended on 5 April 2016, and will make up the lower half of the payslip which will be posted to you in early May.

The New State Pension and National Insurance changes from 6 April 2016

A National Insurance card

Merseyside Pension Fund will shortly write to the home addresses of all active members of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) who will reach State Pension Age after 5 April 2016, describing how the new single-tier State Pension will replace the basic and additional State Pension from 6 April 2016.

'The Honeypot' newsletter for 2016 has been published

A pot of honey

The Fund has published its annual newsletter for LGPS pensioners, ‘The Honeypot’. This issue's leading article describes why there will be no increase to your local government pension in April 2016.

A printed copy of this newsletter, will be posted to each pensioner's home address shortly.

 Download 'The Honeypot 13' (February 2016, PDF, 4 pages, 227KB)