All members of the armed forces will be entitled to 4 times salary for death in service from April 05 until April 06 regardless of whether they join the new pension scheme or not.; BFBS radio had a guy talking about it about 4 weeks ago. As I too pay extra AVCs I immediately contacted my PSF to find out if I would stop paying. Guess what? 4 weeks on and they still cannot give me an answer. As usual this seems to have caught the Adminers on the hop, I am thinking of asking again under FOI rules so should get a quicker answer!