In the last issue of For Your Benefit we told you of our plans to hold WYPF's first annual meeting. We also asked you to tell us where you would like the meeting to be held by sending a return card. Thank you to everyone who did.
By far the biggest vote was for Leeds.
So, our first annual meeting for members, deferred members and pensioners will be at 10.30am on 1st November 2001 at Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
The meeting will be chaired by Councillor Robert Sowman and will start with short presentations on:
- Financial data and developments within WYPF;
- Investment markets and performance;
- the WYPF AVC plan with Scottish Widows; and
- Senior Care Plan from AIG.
- After the presentations you will have the chance to put your questions about your pension scheme to WYPF's senior management team.
Entry to the meeting will be strictly by ticket only.
To get your ticket, please phone 01274 752542 [ticket line now closed].
You will need to tell us your pension number (printed on the form that came with this, and on your monthly pension advice). One ticket only will be issued per member and tickets will be issued on a first-come first-served basis. Please tell us if you have any special needs.
We hope our first annual meeting will be very successful.
Name change for LGPS rule makers
The government reshuffle after the election means that a new department is now responsible for issuing the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations.
Transport and the Regions. But the LGPS rules will now be issued by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions – the DTLR.
The change to the LGPS's sponsoring department comes as part of a wider re-phasing of the government’s overall approach to pensions.
Previously, government strategy on pensions was delivered through the Department of Social Security, but following the election a new Department for Work and Pensions has become responsible for overseeing occupational, personal and state pensions.
One of the department’s main aims is to provide a new Pensions Service to give information and support to today's and tomorrow's pensioners.
We get asked some strange questions from time to time. But when Brian Chapman, a WYPF pensioner, asked if he could bring a puppy into WYPF's office to get it used to going into offices and get it used to going in lifts we thought it was particularly strange.
But when we found out that Brian had become a puppy walker for Guide Dogs for the Blind on his retirement we were particularly happy to help out. And now Brian brings a new puppy into WYPF's offices a couple of times a year.
We do like to help out where we can. And there may be ways we could help you too. For Your Benefit can be sent out in a number of ways to make sure you get your pension scheme information the best way possible.
If getting For Your Benefit in a different format would help you please do let us know
For more information about guide dogs for the blind, visit gdba.org.uk.
