Forms and guides

Hampshire Pension Services has a dedicated page to guides and leaflets.

Visit their website to view all their guides and leaflets.

The page provides information on the following topics:

1. Local Government Association (LGA)

• How is my pension worked out? 
• If you paid into the LGPS before and after April 2014 – protections
• Freedom and Choice Questions and Answers regarding transfers
• A member's guide to AVCs
• Retirement planning guide
• Lifetime allowance factsheet
• Annual allowance Factsheet
• Sharia compliance of LGPS pension benefits (note this report looks at the compliance of the LGPS itself, not at the investments of the scheme)
• LGA Councillor Guide
• LGA Councillor Guide Update

2. Hampshire Pension Services

• Brief employee scheme guide
• 85-year rule protections
• LGPS Starter information booklet
• Schedule of charges

3. LGPS website

• More details about the LGPS
• Pensions and the cost-of-living crisis
• Strike action and your pensions
• McCloud court case
• Information about your annual allowance and lifetime allowance
• Tax and your pension savings

4. Money Helper
5. Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)
6. Annual Benefit Statements
7. The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO)
8. Topping up your State Pension