MOD Pension Debacle
 

Can anyone recommend a good Solicitor that deal with MOD pensions?

Try the Forces Pension Society first - it's free and they are very knowledgeable.
Old Duffer

I don't think FPS is free but its not much and they are very helpful.

Save yourself a fortune and talk to the MOD pension section in Kentigern House Glasgow. It's free and impartial!!!!! Believe it or not they work for you.

If you want/need a debacle have a shufti' at the 1975 Pension'.

Aw diter,

I may have missed something here. What’s up with AFPS75? If there’s something i need to know about I would be grateful for an update.

I have sent a PM to see if I can help.

Pension Payment
 

I am not describing my question as having anything to do with the above mentioned debacle. I am just tagging a question on here in the hope of getting a knowledgeable answer.

My last day in uniform was 20 Sep 22. When, therefore, should I expect to receive my lump sum and what, if anything, do I need to do to make it happen?

I completed all the relevant paperwork before leaving and was told I had nothing left to do. My UK address and bank details have remained the same as they were before I left. I am out of the country though and haven’t read any correspondence from Equiniti.

The answer I have had so far is to expect my lump sum to arrive in 30 working days (it’s now been more than that) and that all payments will be back dated.

I just wondered if anybody has any recent experience of whether the 30 days is a good benchmark or whether it will be the first pay run after the 30 days (standard JPAC Glasgow answer even though I realise pensions are done differently) or one of any number of other such excuses.

I have some Champagne on ice which is waiting on an answer!

BV

Until recently BV, it was 7-10 working days. By my arithmetic, 30 wd for you is Remembrance Fri next week and I understand they are leaning towards 20-30 days for now. Fingers crossed for today or next week.

GXC
 

I personally make today day 34 (assuming a Mon-Fri working week). I’m happy to accept a few days grace but I’ll be annoyed if I end up in the ‘wait until the end of the month’ cycle.

Is this all just the MOD’s last chance to give you a kick in the nuts before you leave? To remind us how ‘people are our best asset’?!

BV

If it's 30 RAF working days, then it is about 7 1/2 weeks before you get it........

Wensleydale
 

That was my worry. By the time you factor in Wednesday sports (not for aircrew), early stack on a Friday (not for aircrew) and ‘office closed for staff training’ (not for aircrew) then you run out of time pretty quickly.

BV

(Trigger warning: this is 99.9% banter. If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t have joined).

This might be irrelevant to your case but when I received my first pension payment, and subsequent, I was bemused why it was paid on the 12th of the month. It was later pointed out to me that was the day of the month when I took the Queen’s Shilling, forty years previous. Lump sum arrived in my account a few days earlier, if I recall correctly.

Speedy, I think it has to do with the day you left the RAF - I made my last day in service 11 November so I would always remember it and my pension in paid out on that day every month. I joined on 1 March - scarily 40 years ago!

aw_ditor
Just picked up on your 1975 comment. I finished March "74", the new pension scheme went through parliament in 73 but MOD decided to implement it in 1975!
We tried to get it back dated but the cynics amongst us decided that the MOD were banking (sic) on us dying off.
had another look recently when I found a document stating that widows/whatever could claim as long as the partner was serving had been serving in April 1973!

I left a few months ago. Lump sum arrived 9 working days after I officially finished. Pension, paid in arrears, was a seemingly random 20 working days afterwards.
I did chase it up as I’d heard nothing after filling in the paperwork several months earlier even though you’re supposed to get confirmation of receipt from them. They had received everything and could provide me the detail of what I would be receiving with rough dates as well.

Sven
 

That sounds more like I was expecting. Being overseas I’m loathe to make too many phone calls but it’s getting a little tedious. I’ll try to be patient for a little while longer.

BV

Bob, at least your pension, when you get it, will be increased by 10.1% next year according to what someone posted on another thread

Just a note:

For those that have been out a while and when you finally reach the military pension age, remember you actually NEED TO APPLY FOR IT roughly when it's due, it WILL NOT automatically be paid out.

BV - mine was just under a month, but was paid at the beginning of a month, so it may well be a PAYE type cycle.