Overseas members

Living outside the UK?

Details of your pension payments are shown in your payslips and P60, which can be viewed through our Member Portal. If you need further information about your pension to provide to an authority or organisation in your home country then please contact us: 

If your query is about your tax or your residency for tax purposes then you will need to contact HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). We have no involvement in international tax agreements or calculations of allowances. By law we must apply the tax codes provided to us directly from HMRC.

Payments outside the UK

You can ask us to pay your pension in the country of your residence. If you are interested in this service, then please complete the Payment Mandate Form and return to Pension Services. 

We use a company called Convera to pay pensions to overseas bank accounts. We need two weeks' notice to set up the arrangement with Convera before we can make payment to overseas accounts.

Convera do not charge an administration fee. Instead they make their margin through a reduction to the exchange rate payable. 

Pensions Increase

If you have a Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) then you will need to ask the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to notify us of your circumstances. This is because increases on your State pension are only paid if you live in:

  • The European Economic Area,
  • Gibraltar or Switzerland,
  • Countries with a social security agreement with the UK (but not Canada or New Zealand).

Once we have notification from DWP, we may be able to pay the full pension increase on your pension, depending on what country you are living in.

Declaration of Pension Entitlement

If a member dies then LGPS regulations (which comply with the Finance Act 2004) require the pension account to be closed and if applicable, new accounts set up for beneficiaries. To ensure that we comply with these regulations and do not pay a pension after the date of death, we are obliged to carry out regular checks on pensioner members. We do this by mortality screening, by obtaining proof of life in countries not covered by the screening and by participation in the National Fraud Initiative. 

We normally request proof of life through our Member Portal but may instead ask you to complete and return a "Declaration of Pension Entitlement Form". This can be found at: Forms for members of the LGPS. We ask you to confirm your address and to sign the form to confirm that you are still entitled to receive a pension paid by the LGPS. This form must be witnessed by someone, over 18, who is not a family member.

Regrettably, if you fail to comply with a request for proof of life, we may suspend your pension payments.