To get back on topic-I have a preserved AFPS pension I hope to start collecting in 2022. The stated principle (Recommendation 4 if you read the Hutton report) is that whatever is already accrued is still yours. Only service beyond the change (2015) will have different conditions.
I'm well aware that much can be lost 'twixt cup and lip', so I emailed my MP. I pointed out that I couldn't exactly jump back into my cockpit to do some more 'time', having left. I also pointed out that those made (or about to be made) compulsorily redundant didn't have options to serve longer either.
Got a reply in 11 minutes (
), with a promise of a letter to the Minister and notification of his reply. I'll believe it when I see it, but it's a start.
May I suggest emails to MPs from all ppruners.
p.s.
for comparison with AFPS, I believe the Teachers' Pension Scheme is self-financing (I've got a preserved one of those too).