Employee Guide to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

This section of the website contains the Employees guide to the LGPS. This guide gives a breakdown of key areas of information in a manageable format. These sections cover most aspects of the scheme from joining to retirement.

Each section is available below in PDF format

About this Booklet (167kb)

Your Pension Choices - Joining the Scheme (192kb)

Transferring pension rights into the LGPS (174kb)

Leave of absence and the LGPS (170kb)

Increasing your benefits (197kb) (Updated 25/07/2011)

Leaving your job before retirement (213kb)

Life cover - protection for your family (202kb) (Updated 25/07/2011)

Your retirement benefits (222kb)

Pensions and Divorce or Dissolution of a Civil Partnership (200kb)
(Updated 25/07/2011)

Tax controls and your LGPS benefits (221kb) (Updated 25/07/2011)

Help with pension problems (166kb)

If you joined the LGPS before 1.4.2008 (174kb)

Some terms we use (220kb)