Annual benefit statements
Your Annual Benefit Statement provides an estimate of your pension benefits built up in your current scheme using membership to the 31 March each year.
Sargeant Remedy: Out-of-scope members
All 2024 statements for out-of-scope members have been produced, and you should have your statement. The following notes may help you understand the information in your statement.
- If you have both FPS 2015 and FPS 2006 membership read these notes
- If you have FPS 2015 membership only read these notes
2025 statements will be produced later in the year.
Sargeant Remedy: In-scope members
We have begun production of 2024 ABS-RSS's. Once we have produced the 2024 statements we will begin pre-production of the 2025 statements. We will send these out later in the year.
What is an ABS-RSS?
Your ABS RSS is for information purposes only. You do not need to make any decisions about which benefits you want to take until you retire.
The statement shows you the benefits you are entitled to on 31 March 2024 and for the Remedy period (April 2015 to March 2022) in both the reform scheme (FPS 2015) and your legacy scheme (FPS 1992 or FPS 2006) plus a projection to your 60th birthday.
Example statements:
Why was the 2024 ABS-RSS delayed?
The production of the statements was delayed because our administration system needed significant reprogramming to comply with the legislative changes. Unfortunately, these changes and upgrades supplied by our software provider have not all worked as expected and have required a lot of testing and fixing.
There are some categories of member that we still cannot produce a statement for. If you are affected by this we will be writing to you individually with more information about it. Affected members include:
- Outstanding transfer in or inter-brigade cases
- Members with Pension Sharing Orders or Divorce Debits
- Annual Allowance Scheme Pays Deductions
- Members with Additional Pension Contributions
- Modified Scheme members
- Outstanding Matthews 2 cases