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Avon Pension Fund Committee - Annual Report to Council 2014-15

7 August 2015

Responsible Investing Annual Report 2014-15 Each year the Avon Pension Fund Committee reports on its activities to Bath & North East Somerset Council. The report for the year ending 31 March 2015 was presented at the Council meeting on 16 July 2015. The report covers the scope of the work considered by the Committee during the year and the decisions taken as well as the training undertaken by the Committee members. It also highlights the future work programme of the current committee.

Avon Pension Fund Committee - Annual Report to Council 2014-15

Amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

15 July 2015

There are amendments to the LGPS which came into force on the 11 April 2015. The amendments are in the following areas:

Joining the Scheme
50/50 section
Buying back lost pension
Opting out of the LGPS
Reductions in hours due to ill health
Payments of pension to a child

Freedom and Choice - transfers from the LGPS to Defined Contributions schemes

26 March 2015

Over recent months there has been a great deal of information in the media and elsewhere about the Government's announcement in the 2014 Budget that reforms to workplace pensions would be made, effective from 6 April 2015. These reforms offer greater flexibility (‘Freedom and Choice’) in the way individuals aged 55 and over can access any Defined Contribution (DC) pension savings they may have.

Q&A for LGPS members - Freedom and Choice

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