Scheme guides and forms
This page contains various guides and booklets to assist in explaining various aspects of the schemes, the forms that you need are also available from this page.
Some guides are provided by JSS and the others link directly to the Civil Service Penson Scheme.
The guides located on the Civil Pension Scheme Website are external links which JSS have no control over.
Where a guide asks you to contact 'your pension administrator', please contact JSS.
Scheme Guides and Information Provided by Civil Service Pensions
Where a guide references Legal & General this should be ignored, Scottish Widows and Standard Life are the relevant providers.
- Classic Scheme Guide (PDF, 7MB) - opens in new window
- Classic Plus Scheme Guide (7MB) - opens in new window
- Nuvos Scheme Guide (PDF, 7MB) - opens in new window
- Premium Scheme Guide (PDF, 7MB) - opens in new window
- Pension Choices Premium or Partnership (PDF, 299KB) - opens in new window (for those who joined prior to 30 July 2007)
- Pensions and Divorce (PDF, 655KB) - opens in new window
- The Public Sector Transfer Club (PDF, 150KB) - opens in new window
Scheme Guides and Information Provided by JSS
- Abatement (PDF, 197KB) - opens in new window
- Allocation of Pension (PDF, 137KB) - opens in new window
- Death Benefits and Tax (PDF, 31KB) - opens in new window
- Ill Health Retirement Guide - Classic (PDF, 115KB) - opens in new window
- Ill Health Retirement Guide - Nuvos (PDF, 151KB) - opens in new window
- Ill Health Retirement Guide - Premium, Classic Plus (PDF, 114KB) - opens in new window
- Inverse Commutation Guide (PDF, 286KB) - opens in new window
- Leaving Before Pension Age (less than 2 years' service) - Nuvos scheme (PDF, 171KB) - opens in new window
- Making a Partner Nomination (PDF, 143KB) - opens in new window
- Partial Retirement - A Guide for Scheme Members (PDF, 1·2MB) - opens in new window
- Partnership Scheme Guide (PDF, 543KB) - opens in new window
- Pension Benefits - Death in Service - Classic Scheme (PDF, 88KB) - opens in new window
- Pension Choices Nuvos or Partnership - An Overview (PDF, 140KB) - opens in new window
- Serious Ill Health Guide (PDF, 192KB) - opens in new window
- Trivial Commutation Guide (PDF, 159KB) - opens in new window
Forms
The information in the forms below can now be completed electronically, however they must be printed and signed before sending to JSS.
JSS recommend that you download the required form before completing it as your browser may not support all of the form functionality.
- Added Pension Application Form - Classic, Classic Plus and Premium (PDF, 275KB) - opens in new window
- Added Pension Application Form - Nuvos (PDF, 260KB) - opens in new window
- Bank Change Form - Overseas (PDF, 70KB) - opens in new window
- Bank Change Form - UK (PDF, 15KB) - opens in new window
- Death Benefit Nomination Form (PDF, 426KB) - opens in new window
- Revocation of death benefit nomination (PDF, 114KB) - opens in new window
- Inverse commutation application form (PDF, 118KB) - opens in new window
- Opt in form (PDF, 73KB) - opens in new window
- Opt out form and fact sheet (PDF, 132KB) - opens in new window
- Partial retirement quote form (PDF, 114KB) - opens in new window
- Making a partner nomination (PDF, 144KB) - opens in new window
- Making changes to your Partnership Contributions (PDF, 198KB) - opens in new window
- Pension switch form for those who joined after 30 July 2007 (PDF, 133KB) - opens in new window
- Pension switch form for those who joined before 30 July 2007 (PDF, 164KB) - opens in new window
- Scheme Pays quote request form (PDF, 820KB) - opens in new window
- Transfer Request form (PDF, 131KB) - opens in new window
Employer Forms
- JSS Nuvos Pension Questionnaire (PDF, 273KB) - opens in new window - Choices form for new starters
- JSS1 Starter (PDF, 282KB) - opens in new window - New starter form for pensionable appointments
- JSS N/R (PDF, 103KB) - opens in new window - Non-reckonable absence notifications
- JSS HRS/Change (PDF, 20KB) - opens in new window - Notification of change of hours
- JSS IDR (PDF, 26KB) - opens in new window - Internal dispute resolution form
- Comm/Ill (PDF, 71KB) - opens in new window - Option to commute ill health pension into lump sum - Premium & Classic Plus
- Comm/Ill/Classic (PDF, 71KB) - opens in new window - Option to commute ill health pension into lump sum - Classic
- JSS 1 Leaver (PDF, 117KB) - opens in new window - Request for scheme benefit award
- JSS 1A Leaver (PDF, 25KB) - opens in new window - pay information for last 13 years for Classic Plus & Premium only
- JSS 1A Nuvos Leaver (PDF, 26KB) - opens in new window - Nuvos pensionable pay & allowances
- JSS 1B Leaver (PDF, 26KB) - opens in new window - Additional pensionable pay & allowances
- JSS 1C Leaver (PDF, 39KB) - opens in new window - Final notification of part time hours
- JSS 2 Leaver (PDF, 64KB) - opens in new window - Members details for payment of benefits
- JSS 4 Leaver (PDF, 82KB) - opens in new window - Record of basic scheme contributions
- JSS 5 Leaver (PDF, 94KB) - opens in new window - Record of Added Years and/or Added Pension contributions
- JSS 6 Leaver (PDF, 500KB) - opens in new window - Partnership pension account leavers form
- JSS 8 Cross council transfer form (PDF, 104KB) - opens in new window - Cross council transfer form
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