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  • DB Members

    About the scheme

  • Your benefits if you divorce

    If you get divorced, your pension will be taken into account along with your other assets when working out a financial settlement.

    There are two ways in which your benefits can be split:

    1. Your ex-husband or wife can be awarded part of your benefit through a pension-sharing order or agreement. They must use the value of those benefits to buy benefits in an approved pension arrangement of their choice.

    2. Your ex-husband or wife can be awarded some of your benefits which can only be paid once you start to receive them. Your ex-husband or wife would not receive any benefits if you were to die whilst in employment or if they were to get married before you retired.