Scheme employers for elected members
Your Scheme employer is the body deemed to be responsible for your LGPS membership. As a councillors or mayor, you do not have an employer and therefore a body is nominated to perform this role for you.
Your Scheme employer is generally the body that pays you an allowance or salary and can therefore deduct contributions directly.
Some councillors are paid pensionable allowances from more than one Scheme employer because they hold multiple roles. If this applies to you, you are eligible to join the LGPS in each role. This means you can opt into the Scheme separately for each position and have multiple pension accounts. For example, a councillor who serves on:
- Huntingdonshire District Council
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Fire and Rescue Authority, and
- the Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
will receive allowances paid directly from four separate bodies. If they elect to join the LGPS in all their roles, they will have four Scheme employers and four separate pension accounts.
See Pensionable pay for elected members for more information on which allowances are pensionable.