Prospect members' guide 02: early retirement, severance and redundancy in the civil service (Members only)
publication date 06 March 2003

The benefits provided by the Civil Service Compensation Scheme if you leave before retiring age. Includes explanatory circulars about two compulsory early retirement issues. The printed version of this guide contains a number of tables which are now out-of-date, so they have been removed from the PDF version. Also, please note that the guide does not cover terms for those over 50 not in the Classic scheme.

Pensions green paper (Members only)
03/0203/CO1/1/NEC

Prospect's response to the government's Pensions green paper (27 March 2003)

Pension provision in the UK: the state pension schemes (Members only)
Pensions paper p.1a

The basic state pension, second state pension and pension credit

Pension provision in the UK: occupational pension schemes (Members only)
Pensions paper p.1b

The two main types of occupational pension schemes ('defined benefit' and 'defined contribution')

PCSPS 2000 (Members only)
01/0841/C03/1/NEC

Updating report (2 November 2001)

Electricity supply pension scheme surpluses (Members only)

How the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme (ESPS) groups handled the actuarial surpluses in their scheme following the 2001 valuation