How we keep in touch

Annual Benefit Statements

Each year we will send you an Annual Benefit Statement (ABS) showing you the current value of your deferred pension benefits as at 31 March for the tax year that has just ended. The ABS will also contain other useful information about your pension.

Annual Benefit Statements are usually sent no later than 31 August annually.

Your deferred benefits are subject to an inflationary increase each April in line with changes in the Consumer Prices Index. Each year we will send you an Annual Benefit Statement (ABS) showing you the current value of your deferred pension benefits after the April inflationary increase has been applied. The ABS will also contain other useful information about your pension.

Annual Benefit Statements are usually sent to deferred scheme members no later than 31 August annually.

Our intention in the future is to issue an annual newsletter to all pensioners, starting from April 2016. There are also other ways we keep in touch with pensioners, as follows:

P60s for pensioners

A P60 is a certificate showing the pension paid and the tax deducted during the previous tax year. We will send you a P60 in May each year. If you need the cumulative totals of your gross pension payments and tax before this you can obtain these details on your March payslip.

Payslips for pensioners

We send a payslip to pensioners at least twice a year, in March and April.

Pension increase notification to pensioners

We will write to you every April with details of your pension increase.