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Which begs the question as to why it has been decided that PAS will have all their salary, including that element that was previously given as additional pay, fully pensioned under AFPS05, rather than continuing the half-way house arrangement that was deemed suitable to attract enough people into PAS within AFPS75? The arguments against and for the pensioning of continuous "additional pay", and the semantic difference for most of us between that and our "military salary" are well-rehearsed. If I were a betting man, I would lay odds that MoD were running scared that someone would eventually take them to the European Courts on the justification for charging tax and national insurance on continuous additional pay, whilst ignoring it for pension purposes. If you could attract enough people to a different set of terms of service which did not call the same money "additional pay", and at the same time pension some (or now all) of it, the risk would be much reduced. Pity that this plan still shafts the other poor sods, but who cares about them anyway?
But they wouln't do that, would they?
Ginseng