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  • NICS Pension Schemes Members - Publications

    Topics:
    • Working in the Northern Ireland Civil Service, 
    • NICS Pension Schemes Members, 
    • Key sections and resources for NICS Pension Schemes Employers, 
    • Key sections and resources for NICS Pension Schemes Members

    Pension scheme information guides

    Scheme guides

    • classic scheme
    • classic plus scheme
    • premium scheme
    • nuvos scheme
    • alpha scheme
    • partnership scheme

    Scheme overview

    • Key Features of the NICS Pension Schemes
    • Overview of the NICS pension schemes and comparisons with alpha

    Boosting pensions

    • Added pension for classic, classic plus, premium, nuvos and alpha
    • Northern Ireland Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme (NICSAVCS)
    • Stakeholder pensions

    Leaving before retirement age

    • Leaving before pension age with 2 or more years' service
    • Leaving nuvos before pension age with less than 2 years' service
    • Leaving alpha - Section 4 of the alpha scheme guide
    • classic ill-health retirement pension benefits
    • classic plus and premium ill-health retirement pension benefits
    • nuvos ill-health retirement pension benefits
    • alpha ill-health retirement pension benefits - Section 5
    • Partial retirement - a guide for scheme members

    Age retirement

    • classic retirement benefits
    • classic plus retirement benefits
    • nuvos retirement benefits
    • premium retirement benefits
    • alpha
    • Thinking about retirement

    Other issues

    • An Introduction to Effective Pension Age (EPA)
    • Opting out form and factsheet
    • Automatic enrolment sheet
    • What is abatement?
    • Injury benefits scheme
    • Death benefits and tax - a guide for personal representatives
    • Pension choices booklet - alpha or partnership
    • Pensions and divorce, dissolution or annulment
    • Pensions for Partners: A guide
    • Public Sector Transfer Club
    • Your pension and tax - How the tax rules may affect you
    • CWP1 - How your pension is worked out
    • CWP2 - Part-time, term-time and seasonal working
    • CWP3 - Change in working patterns - flexible and shift working
    • CWP4 - Career breaks
    • CWP5 - Special leave, maternity, paternity and adoption leave, parental leave and time off for dependants

    Related content

    • 2015 Remedy Regulations
    • Added Pension
    • Added Pension - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    • alpha moving dates
    • alpha Regulations
    • An introduction to alpha
    • Associated Scheme Rules
    • Civil Service Pension (NI) Complaints and appeals procedures
    • Civil Service Pensions (NI) Privacy Policy Overview
    • Compensation for voluntary or compulsory redundancy and CSCS(NI) scheme rules
    • Death Benefit Nomination
    • Employee Pension Notices
    • Employer Contribution Rates
    • Employer Pension Notices
    • EPA (Effective Pension Age)
    • Glossary of pensions terms
    • Ill-Health Retirement
    • Ill-Health Retirement - Members affected by Remedy
    • Immediate Choice Remediable Service Statement (RSS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    • Key Remedy Dates and Jargon Buster
    • Making an Allowance Pensionable
    • Members like me
    • Moving to the alpha pension scheme in April 2022
    • New Fair Deal
    • NICS Pension Schemes - Employer Calculators
    • NICS Pension Schemes - Employers Forms
    • NICS Pension Schemes - Member Calculators
    • NICS Pension Schemes - New Entrant Pension Pack
    • NICS Pension Schemes – Member forms
    • NICSPS - DoF's role in the management of the NICS pension schemes
    • Northern Ireland Civil Service Pension Scheme Valuations
    • Partial Retirement
    • Partnership pension account
    • PCSPS(NI) Rules
    • Pension Notice Archive
    • Quick Start Guides
    • Second Phase of 2015 Remedy (McCloud) – Immediate Choice Remediable Service Statements
    • Transfers
    • What to expect
    • Who in addition to civil servants can participate in the Northern Ireland Civil Service Pension arrangements?
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