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 will have multiple Scheme employers and can therefore opt into the Scheme in multiple roles 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.