Civil Service Pensions

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God I'm so confused right now. I have the following questions to answer:

1. Have you ever been a member of the Civil Service pension agreements?

2. If not, are you currently a member of a pension scheme "by-analogy" to the civil service?

I have no idea of the answer to that, but Thames Valley Police contract their pensions out to Buckinghamshire County Council but that's pretty much all I know. Can anyone help me answer these before I have to make a load of calls and get passed to everyone at Bucks CC to find out?

This might help:

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/media/133358/starter_booklet.pdf
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/media/133272/LGPS_Your_Pension.pdf
 
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I need to make this clear. It's a Thames Valley Police Staff pension not a police officer pension.

Burnsy, i'm, pretty sure it is. You can double check, but the fact is you are employed by the crown.

Crown employees are all entitled to a civil service pension.

I know I have the same pension as a friend who was no more than an errand boy at Scotland Yard. I was in the FCO.
 
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I wouldn't agree that Nuvos is the worst deal ever. It's not as good as Classic or Premium, but it's still an excellent deal when compared to what else is on offer at the moment, particularly in the private sector.
 
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Burnsy, i'm, pretty sure it is. You can double check, but the fact is you are employed by the crown.

Crown employees are all entitled to a civil service pension.

I know I have the same pension as a friend who was no more than an errand boy at Scotland Yard. I was in the FCO.

again wrong police are not directly employed by the crown, as prison officers, security services etc. are, police are not the same as central government departments, they are funded by local government and police authorities. The pension arrangements are done by each police authority and often by the local government pension scheme
 
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If you joined in the past 5 years or so and it does count as a civil service pension it's almost certainly Nuvos, you should still have paperwork and/or it may say on your annual pension statement but in the absence of further information I'd guess Nuvos.

Most likely. Check your contract burnsy the details should be on there.
 
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ouch nuvos is the worse deal ever...
I was looking into this recently and nuvos didn't seem very interesting. I was comparing something like 2.3% contribution +RPI 'til retirement with the partnership pension which was something like 10% +the market 'til retirement.

Why would someone choose nuvos over partnership?
 
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If you joined in the past 5 years or so and it does count as a civil service pension it's almost certainly Nuvos, you should still have paperwork and/or it may say on your annual pension statement but in the absence of further information I'd guess Nuvos.

It won't be Civil Service I would imagine, only small specialist police forces are nationally funded/controlled such as the nuclear protection force etc?

Police generally speaking are local government. Support staff aren't civil servants. Public servants.
 
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