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, uniformed police and fire officers are not eligible for membership of 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
Currently, there are approximately 19,500 active members, 16,000 deferred members and 10,000 pensioner members in the Wiltshire Pension Fund.
Wiltshire Pension Fund, Wiltshire Council - Bythesea Road,Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8JJ.
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