2023

The government have made some changes to the tax regime around pensions.  These are set out below: From 6 April 2023 The annual allowance (the amount that you can save into a pension tax free each year) is increasing from £40,000 to £60,000. The money purchase annual allowance (the amount that you can save into […]

We wrote to pensioner members of UGPS, RBS and JVPS earlier in the Summer outlining the Capita Cyber incident (https://www.capita.com/news/update-actions-taken-resolve-cyber-incident).  We had not had the specific data items exfiltrated so we wrote to all members highlighting that there was a risk that their data had been stolen. Since this date, we have been working closely […]

If you are a pensioner member of RBS, UGPS or JVPS, you should have by now received a letter from the Chair outlining that some of our Scheme data was exflitrated as part of the Capita Cyber Incident (https://www.capita.com/news/update-actions-taken-resolve-cyber-incident). A generic copy of the letter, the FAQ and the Scam Smart leaflet are uploaded here.  […]