As it is I guess there are precisely zero members making extra contributions due to the lack of information or a published method to make payments. I find it hard to believe that any other pension scheme would be able to behave in this way.
JTO,
AVCs have been suspended for AFPS 15 - or that's what has been publicised so far. I mentioned it on one of the other threads a couple of weeks ago as a heads up as I only stumbled on it by accident rather than being actively informed.
Essentially, they believe the new scheme offers as standard the same benefits that people were previously buying under the AVC scheme, barring extra years service (what I pay in to), so any one formerly buying enhanced death in service and widow benefits will no longer be able to do so under 15 scheme. The extra years, unless I've misread it, will continue , but I don't know when that will open up again.
Of course I stand to be corrected and there could have been further changes in the past 2 weeks we weren't told about!