Reserve forces leave

If you’re on reserve forces leave and choose to remain in the LGPS we’ll work out your pension using your assumed pensionable pay (APP). Using this makes sure you continue to build up pension as if you were in work rather than on reserve forces service leave.

Your employer needs to tell you:

• the amount of basic pension contributions you and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) must pay
• any additional contributions you’re paying and
• the amount of APP those contributions must be collected on.

You should pass the information to the MoD who’ll take the appropriate pension contributions. They’ll pay them to us along with the employer contributions that are due.

We won’t take pension contributions from any pay you get from your LGPS employer during this time.