What your employer will do

Your employer will:

  • let you know about the scheme you have joined, linking you to the brief guide on this page and the LGPS national members' website
  • tell you what your pensionable pay will be, and how they have calculated it
  • tell you what your contribution rate will be, and how they have calculated it
  • provide a contact in your organisation who will be able to answer your questions on LGPS membership
  • inform us, Pension Services, that you have joined
  • send us information monthly

What Pension Services will do

We will:

  • set up your pension record with the Oxfordshire fund (if you have two or more jobs, we'll open a new record for each job)
  • receive information from your employer monthly
  • tell you how to sign up to our online member portal called My Oxfordshire Pension
  • register any declared previous membership of the LGPS or other pension arrangements
  • tell you how to transfer pension benefits from other schemes

What you should do

You should:

  • check your payslip to ensure pension deductions have started, and are correct
  • complete the 'previous pension form' when you receive it and return it to us - you have only 12 months to transfer previous pensions into the LGPS
  • sign up to My Oxfordshire Pension to stay informed and keep your details up to date

Further information about the LGPS