Christmas & New Year Opening Times
Submitted by Administrator on December 23, 2013 - 4:04pmMerseyside Pension Fund will be closed from 4pm on Tuesday 24 December 2013 to 9am on Thursday 2 January 2014.
Merseyside Pension Fund will be closed from 4pm on Tuesday 24 December 2013 to 9am on Thursday 2 January 2014.
The latest issue of our annual newsletter for LGPS pensioners, ‘The Honeypot’, has been published. This edition’s lead article focuses on the expected increase to local government pensions from April 2014.
Merseyside Pension Fund has picked up the 'Best Environmentally Sustainable Investment' Award at the LGC Investment Awards held in London.
Annual Benefit Statements will very shortly be posted to those with an active membership of the LGPS as at 31 March 2013.
If you joined the LGPS after 31 March 2013, you should receive your first statement in 2014.
Annual Benefit Statements, together with a copy of ‘The Hive’ newsletter, will start arriving from Monday 19 August 2013, for those with a deferred membership of the LGPS as at 1 April 2013.
Those who left the Scheme after 1 April 2013, should receive their first Deferred Members' Benefit Statement in 2014.
Registered users of our online service, 'My Pension', can view a copy of their 2013 Deferred Benefit Statement now. If you would like to register to use 'My Pension' for the first time, please click here.
The Fund will shortly issue a P60 certificate to everyone who received a pension from us in the 2012/2013 tax year. The P60 is a summary of your pension and tax details for the 2012/2013 tax year which ended on 5 April 2013, and will make up the lower half of your May 2013 payslip.
The Government has confirmed that local government pensions will rise by 2.2% from April. This increase is in line with last September’s inflation figure, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).
Have you been ‘approached’ by a company claiming to be able to help you access your Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pension early?