Originally Posted by
132bod
Military pay is indeed abated by a fixed percentage to account for our non-contributory pension.
The Pay Review Board decides what our job is worth. That amount is then adjusted by the "X" factor upwards & abated for the non-contributory pension. We then arrive at the Pay Scale we actually get paid. If you decide not to join the AFPS of whatever flavour you have available, you do not get the abatement back!
Its rather worse than that. Under the 75 scheme you had to complete 22 years to recieve a pension but everyones pay was abated to to take account of the "non-contributory" pension. the end result being that those commited for less than 22 years had their pay abated to pay for a pension they would never recieve. Not sure if this changed under later schemes.