Latest news & announcements

The FRC categorise signatories of the stewardship code based on the quality of their statement of compliance, the Avon Pension Fund has been awarded the highest Tier 1 assessment:

Tier 1 - Signatories provide a good quality and transparent description of their approach to stewardship and explanations of an alternative approach where necessary.

Statement of Compliance with FRC Stewardship Code - 2016

The Annual Allowance is the amount by which the value of your pension benefits may increase in any one year without you having to pay a tax charge.

The HMRC has set up an online Annual Allowance calculator so that pension scheme members can check:

Members usually pay tax if their pension pots are worth more than the Lifetime Allowance. The allowance is currently £1 million. While the majority of members of the Local Government Pension Scheme will be unaffected, those members that are may be able to apply for protections and an online facility to register for Fixed Protection 2016 and Individual Protection 2016 is now open for individuals to access.

There will be a delay in the sending of the annual pension benefit statement for deferred members who left the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.

If you previously paid into the LGPS but haven’t yet retired you are known as a deferred member and your pension benefits are frozen or preserved.

As a deferred member every year we send you your Annual Deferred Pension Statement, which shows the current value of your deferred benefits you have with the Avon Pension Fund as at 6 April.