Your Pension Paydays in 2020
Submitted by Administrator on December 6, 2019 - 5:29pm
Just a reminder, that LGPS pensions are paid monthly, no later than the 10th of each month.
Website News 2019
Christmas & New Year Opening Times 2019/20
Submitted by Administrator on December 6, 2019 - 10:13am
Merseyside Pension Fund will be closed from 3pm on Tuesday 24 December 2019 until 9am on Thursday 2 January 2020.
Merseyside Pension Fund's Report & Accounts 2018/19
Submitted by Administrator on November 29, 2019 - 12:27pm
Merseyside Pension Fund has published the final version of its Report & Accounts for 2018/19.
Bank Holiday office closure
Submitted by Administrator on August 21, 2019 - 5:29pm
Merseyside Pension Fund will be closed over the Bank Holiday weekend.
2019 Active Members' Annual Benefit Statements are now available online
Submitted by Administrator on August 16, 2019 - 7:36am
Active Members who are registered users of 'MyPension', and were contributing to the LGPS as at 31 March 2019, can now view their 2019 Annual Benefit Statement online.
2019 Deferred Members' Annual Benefit Statements are available
Submitted by Administrator on July 10, 2019 - 2:43pm
Deferred Members who are registered users of 'MyPension', can now view their 2019 Deferred Members' Annual Benefit Statement online.
Express your interest in drawing your Deferred Benefits
Submitted by Administrator on April 5, 2019 - 10:33am
If you are a Deferred member aged 55 or over, you can now complete a new webform to express your interest in drawing your deferred benefits (except on grounds of ill health, where you must contact your former employer).
When you complete the form, you will be expressing your interest in obtaining the value of your benefits rather than committing to put them into payment.
Early payment of deferred benefits if you left the LGPS before 1 April 1998
Submitted by Administrator on March 26, 2019 - 12:18pm
A change to the LGPS rules has been made which means that deferred members aged 55 and over who left the LGPS before 1 April 1998, no longer have to leave all local government employment to be able to draw their deferred benefits.
Equalisation of Survivor's Pensions paid to same-sex spouses and registered civil partners
Submitted by Administrator on March 26, 2019 - 9:56am
A change to the LGPS rules has been made to provide that survivor's benefits payable to a same-sex spouse or a registered civil partner are equal those paid to the widow of a male member.
2018/19 P60 End of Tax Year certificates will be posted to pensioners in May 2019
Submitted by Administrator on March 20, 2019 - 9:35am
In May, the Fund will post a P60 End of Tax Year Certificate to everyone who received a pension from us in the 2018/2019 tax year which ends on 5 April 2019.
Local government pensions will increase by 2.4% in 2019
Submitted by Administrator on March 19, 2019 - 9:23am
Local government pensions will increase by 2.4% from 8 April 2019 in line with the government's method for increasing public sector pensions, namely the increase in the Consumer Prices Index in the 12 months to 30 September 2018.
Merseyside Pension Fund wins “Best Use of Infrastructure” award
Submitted by Administrator on March 5, 2019 - 11:37am
Merseyside Pension Fund has won the Institute of Alternative Investments' “Best Use of Infrastructure” award.
The 2019 Pensioners' newsletter is published
Submitted by Administrator on February 27, 2019 - 5:30pm
The Fund has published its annual newsletter for LGPS pensioners, ‘The Honeypot’. This issue's leading article describes the 2.4% increase to local government pensions from April 2019.
A printed copy of this newsletter, will be posted to pensioners' home addresses shortly.
Download 'The Honeypot 2019' (Spring 2019, PDF, 4 pages, 264KB)
New employee contribution pay bands from 1 April 2019
Submitted by Administrator on February 12, 2019 - 12:14pm
The Government has confirmed the employee pay bands and contribution rates which will operate in the LGPS in 2019/2020
Merseyside Pension Fund launches a low carbon fund as a part of its Climate Risk Strategy
Submitted by Administrator on January 23, 2019 - 4:20pm
Merseyside Pension Fund has confirmed that it has invested £400 million in a new All World Equity Climate Balanced Multi-Factor Index Sub-Fund.
Revised Early Retirement Reduction Factors Published
Submitted by Administrator on January 10, 2019 - 8:50am
In accordance with Regulation 2(3) of the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 2013 and following guidance received from the Secretary of State we can now confirm that the early retirement factors have been updated with effect from 8 January 2019 and will be applied to benefits taken voluntarily before Normal Pension Age.