Scheme Membership
The current membership of the Wiltshire Pension Fund comes from three types of employer:
- Scheduled Bodies - County, District and Unitary Councils, Police Authority, Fire Authority, City Academies, etc
- Designating Bodies – typically Town/Parish Councils (subject to the body having resolved to allow their employees to join)
- Admission Bodies – all bodies that are not Scheduled or Designating Bodies (subject to the employee meeting the conditions of the Admission Agreement between the Fund and the Admission Body)
As a general rule, teachers and uniformed police and fire officers are not eligible for the LGPS.
To be eligible for active membership, a scheme member must have a mutual obligation contract of more than 3 months duration and be under 75 years of age.
There are three categories of membership:
- Active Members – current contributing members in employment
- Deferred Members – former contributing members who have left the Fund and their benefits are frozen until retirement
- Pensioner Members – retired members who are drawing a pension from the Fund
At the time of writing, there are approximately 20,000 Active Members, 12,500 Deferred Members and 9,000 Pension Members in the Wiltshire Pension Fund.
Wiltshire Pensions Fund, County Hall,Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8JJ.
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