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Forms and resources

Booklets and factsheets

  • Active LGPS annual benefit statement guidance notes
  • Annual allowance factsheet
  • How reduced pensionable pay effects your final salary pension benefits factsheet
  • Online pension account user guide for active members
  • Retirement planning guide
  • Brief Scheme Guide to LGPS
  • LGPS transfer of employment factsheet

Videos

  • Pensions made simple videos
  • What is a pension (01:31)
  • How your pension works (01:40)
  • Looking after your pension (01:46)
  • Protection for you and your family (01:31)
  • Life after work (01:37)
  • Your annual allowance (03:22)
  • Your lifetime allowance (02:56)
  • Transferring your pension (03:03)
  • Your pension journey - introduction (03:12)
  • Starting your career (10:09)
  • Mid-career choices (12:05)
  • Approaching your retirement (08:09)
  • Your online pension account (09:14)

Newsletters

  • Cambridgeshire Pension Fund newsletter 2024
  • Northamptonshire Pension Fund newsletter 2024
  • Cambridgeshire Pension Fund newsletter 2023
  • Northamptonshire Pension Fund newsletter 2023
  • Cambridgeshire Pension Fund newsletter 2022
  • Northamptonshire Pension Fund newsletter 2022

Joining the scheme and transferring in previous benefits

  • Membership information form
  • Option to join and rejoin main section form
  • Death grant – expression of wish form
  • Cohabiting partner declaration form
  • Transfer in pack (non England and Wales LGPS)

Changes to your personal circumstances

  • Update form
  • Divorce information pack

APC – additional pension contributions

  • Increasing my pension benefits QAs
  • Buying back lost pension
  • Buying extra pension – application for additional pension contribution
  • Medical Certificate

AVC – additional voluntary contributions

  • Increasing my pension benefits QAs
  • LGPS Guide to AVCs

Opting out

  • 50-50 option form
  • Opting out form and notes
  • Refund claim form and notes

Transferring out of the scheme

  • Confirmation of request for a cash equivalent transfer value
  • Transferring membership between Local Government Pension Funds
  • Transfer out FAQs
  • ScamSmart leaflet
  • Transferring your pension video (03:03)

Estimate form

  • Member estimate request form

Retirement forms

  • Application to receive retirement benefits
  • Death grant – expression of wish form (retirement)
  • Retirement benefits – notes
  • Previous Pensions Benefits Declaration
  • Change of bank details form

Disputing an employer decision

  • Disputing an employers decision sheet
  • Full guide decision made by Cambridgeshire Pension Fund employer
  • Full guide decision made by Northamptonshire Pension Fund employer

Disputing an administering authority decision

  • Disputing an administering authority decision sheet
  • Full guide decision made by Cambridgeshire Pension Fund
  • Full guide decision made by Northamptonshire Pension Fund
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