Army pension questions

asandwhen

I joined the army in 1963 at 16 left 1973 aged 26 left as a corpral what pension am I entitled to and when can i draw it?

Cardew

Your service for pension purposes starts at age 18 and you have a preserved pension which will be paid at age 60.

You should write, giving your service details to:

Army Personnel
Army Pensions
Pay, Pension and Personnel Administration
Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency
Mail Point 480
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX

They will give you full details.

pol76

Your pention will be paid on reaching age or you can transfer to your own pention fundi moved mine to my police pention and it broght me a couple of years so i can leave the rat race early:beer:
write to the address on the other reply it is correct

all the best
marcus

moonrakerz

Cardew wrote:

You should write, giving your service details to:

Army Personnel
Army Pensions
Pay, Pension and Personnel Administration
Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency
Mail Point 480
Kentigern House
65 Brown Street
Glasgow G2 8EX

They will give you full details.

Be careful with these people - they got my Navy Pension wrong 4 times, 3 of those times I actually told them what it should be AND they still got it wrong !!!!!!!!

Cardew

moonrakerz wrote:

Be careful with these people - they got my Navy Pension wrong 4 times, 3 of those times I actually told them what it should be AND they still got it wrong !!!!!!!!

But this is the ARMY;)

As you say it is worth checking; there have of course been cases where the got it wrong in favour of the Serviceman.

For the OP the easy part will be working out his pensionable service which will be from age 18 to when he left. As he left at 26 it will be 8+ years, and he will 60 this year.

Finding the 1973 pension rates and the cumulative inflation increases applied to that preserved pension is not so easy.

moonrakerz

Cardew wrote:

But this is the ARMY;)

Exactly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used this site to track mine back to 1981

http://eh.net/hmit/

sashacat

My partner joined as a boy soldier in 1948 and left when he was 26. We reckon he has 8 years post 18, but he is now 74. Do you think it is worth persuing. Does anyone know if the Army had pensions back then?

Cardew

sashacat wrote:

My partner joined as a boy soldier in 1948 and left when he was 26. We reckon he has 8 years post 18, but he is now 74. Do you think it is worth persuing. Does anyone know if the Army had pensions back then?

The Army have always had pensions, but the qualifying conditions have changed greatly over the years.

There have been several versions of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme(AFPS) over the years; the later versions have complied with with UK legislation on Pensions. This introduced the 'Preserved Pensions' - inflation linked pensions to be paid at age 60.

However with some of the earlier versions a gratuity was paid in lieu of a pension.

The significant change came in the mid 1950s(I believe) when all soldier engagements were on pensionable terms of 22 years service(with an option to leave after 3, 6, or 9 years).

My guess is that your partner would not have been on pensionable terms in 1948 and would have been paid a gratuity.

However please don't take my word for it. A simple letter to the address above will set your mind at rest.

seletar

Hi, I was in the army at the same time.You will probally have done a couple of years in boys service, if 16 on entry.So you will only have 8 years of
man service.Unless you were made redundant when you left, I doubt very
much if you will get any pension.I hope I am wrong !

sashacat

Thanks, Cardew, for the help and advice. I have written to them and asked about a pension for my partner. Can't do any harm, can it? I will let you know what happens.