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PENSIONS

Can you help identify a Veteran

with an unclaimed pension?

s part of our campaign to claimed their preserved pensions or The government also has a role to
encourage Veterans with preserved lump sums. play in signposting the issue to the
Aunclaimed pensions benefits to These can be significant amounts of Veterans community, and we continue
come forward, we are asking for your money. A preserved pension of £1,500 to encourage them to do just that.
help to identify anyone you think for someone who left in April 1985 Indeed, some welcome added
might qualify. would now have a value of £4,500 pa. momentum was provided by the
We know thousands of Veterans And anyone serving after April 1975, Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA),
have not yet made their pension now aged 60-plus, could have an which announced in its recent
claim – some 2,000 preserved Armed unclaimed pension. Veterans’ Strategy update: “The OVA
Forces pension benefits go unclaimed AFPS pensions earned before April is working with the MOD and the
every year. And our recent Freedom 2005 are payable at age 60 but they Forces Pension Society to reunite
of Information request showed that will not be paid automatically – they more Veterans with unclaimed,
during the 24-month period between must be applied for. deferred pension benefits.”
1 June 2020 and 31 May 2022, more We ask you to encourage anyone To help spread the word, we have
than 4,000 Armed Forces pensions who might be eligible to visit the produced this simple poster set out
went unclaimed. Veterans’ Gateway website – below, which highlights eligibility
The AFPS Annual Report (July www.veteransgateway.org.uk – to and how to claim.
2023) identified more than 17,100 find out more. It is also available via the landing
unclaimed benefits, with some page on our website.
Veterans having more than one Please help by sharing it across
entitlement. AFPS pensions will not be your networks or with those whom
We can all play our part in paid automatically – they you know have a connection to the
encouraging Veterans we know Armed Forces.
to come forward if they have not must be applied for Thank you!

Veterans Unclaimed Armed Forces Pensions

At least 17,100 unclaimed Armed Forces pension benefits * A CALL
TO

Between June 2020 and May 2022 over 4,000 preserved ACTION!
Armed Forces pensions went unclaimed

Anyone serving after April 1975 now aged 60 or over could have
an Armed Forces pension if they served for 2 years or more * SOURCE: MOD APFS ANNUAL REPORT 2023

The pension is NOT paid automatically - Veterans must
apply to Veterans UK using AFPS Form 8 or can call
0800 085 3600 for further information FIND OUT MORE

8 PENNANT AUTUMN 2023

THANKS TO THE ARMED FORCES PENSION SOCIETY FOR ALLOWING US TO PRINT