Dealing with absences
There are many types of member absences that you'll be faced with as an employer. It's important you know how to deal...
Employer news
Employee Contribution Bands – 2024/2025
The LGPS have released the 2024/2025 employee contribution bands for England and Wales, which will be effective from...
Ill health retirements - a reminder
An ill-health retirement allows a member to retire before their normal pension age due to ill health. You as the empl...
McCloud update August 2023
As a result of its recent industry consultation, the Government has confirmed that the 1 October 2023 deadline for th...
Change to strain factors used in early retirement calculations- August 2023
Following the actuarial valuation in 2022, our actuary Mercers have undertaken a review of early retirement strain co...
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Annual allowance and lifetime allowance changes
Changes to pensions tax limits were announced in the Chancellor’s Spring budget on 15 March 2023. They affect the two...
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Employee contribution bands 2023/2024
Below are the employee contribution bands effective from 1 April 2023. These are calculated by increasing the 2022/23...
LGPS Statistics for 2021/2022
Statistics for the Local Government Pension Scheme nationally were published on 26 October 2022 by the Department for...
Funding Strategy Statement Consultation 2022
The fund is required by the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations to prepare and publish a funding strategy sta...
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Reminder about inducement to opt out
The fund has been made aware of a national issue involving a council job advert offering an additional cash allowance...
LGA updates the Brief Scheme Guide
We’ve recently published our updated Brief Scheme Guide in line with changes from the LGA. You can find the latest ve...
Guidance on special severance payments
On 12 May 2022, DLUHC (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) published statutory guidance on special...
