FAQs

Sort by Most Popular : - Ascending | Descending
Sort by Published : - Ascending | Descending

Your search returned over 50 items - displayed below are the first 50, if what you are looking for is not found please redefine your search

My scheme has transferred to the PPF, and I am close to reaching the scheme's pension age. Do I have the option to take my PPF compensation at a later age?

Published: 26/04/2013
Associated Subjects: Compensation
Associated Roles: Scheme members

What can I do if I am dissatisfied with the response I receive to my request for personal data?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

Do GMP equalisation and the application of the statutory underpin needs to be taken into account in s143 valuations?

Published: 18/02/2013
Associated Subjects: Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP), S143 Valuations
Associated Roles: Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Is an actual monetary contribution to the scheme required (or will corresponding accounting entries be sufficient)?

Published: 04/03/2013
Associated Subjects: Levy, Deficit Reduction Contributions (DRCs)
Associated Levy SubCategories: Data Submission & Voluntary Certificates
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

How do I find out more about DRCs?

Published: 04/03/2013
Associated Subjects: Deficit Reduction Contributions (DRCs), Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Data Submission & Voluntary Certificates
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

How do I get the PPF to take a DRC into account?

Published: 04/03/2013
Associated Subjects: Deficit Reduction Contributions (DRCs)
Associated Levy SubCategories: Data Submission & Voluntary Certificates
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

If the employer pays a special contribution for the trustees to invest in a Special Purpose Vehicle (“SPV”) (such as entering into a Scottish limited partnership with the employer), can the contribution qualify as a DRC?

What is a Deficit Reduction Contribution (“DRC”)?

Are there any exemptions that may affect the information you can send me?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

What happens once you have received my request for my personal data?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

Will I be charged for the provision of the personal data I have requested?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

What rights do I have as an individual under the Data Protection Act 1998?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

How can I request my personal data?

Published: 08/11/2012
Associated Subjects: Data Protection
Associated Roles: General Interest

How do I unsubscribe from your email alert list?

Published: 18/07/2011
Associated Subjects: PPF - General Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

Can I specify how I receive the information?

Published: 18/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

What if the information I am requesting is not listed in the Publication Scheme?

Published: 17/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

Can I have extra copies of the levy booklet accompanying the 2012/13 invoice?

Published: 03/09/2012
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Levy SubCategories: Invoicing
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

I have received my 2012/13 levy invoice but have since lost it. Can you send me a copy of the invoice?

Published: 03/09/2012
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Levy SubCategories: Invoicing
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

How do we apply for a levy waiver for 2012/13?

Published: 03/09/2012
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Levy SubCategories: Waivers
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Will I be charged for the information?

Published: 18/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

What happens once I’ve submitted my FOI request?

Published: 17/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

Can I appeal if I am not satisfied with the response I receive?

Published: 17/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

What is a levy waiver?

Published: 03/09/2012
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Roles: Employers, Trustees

My scheme has been paying the pension protection levy, but I have been advised that it is not possible for there to be a “qualifying insolvency event” so that the scheme could never enter the PPF. That can’t be right, surely?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Eligibility, Compensation, Levy, Insolvency, Assessment Period
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

How do I submit a Freedom of Information request?

Published: 17/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

How does a deed confirming the equalisation position interact with the admissible rules regime for a scheme in assessment?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Assessment Period, Equalisation
Associated Roles: Pensions Professionals, Trustees

What are the exemptions to providing information under FOI?

Published: 17/07/2012
Associated Subjects: Freedom of Information
Associated Roles: General Interest

When will I receive my 2012/13 levy invoice? Can you tell me in advance how much it will be?

Published: 08/08/2012
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Will the PPF take part in court proceedings relating to the effectiveness of benefit equalisation exercises?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Assessment Period, Equalisation, Legal Issues - General
Associated Roles: Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Will the actions we plan to take in relation to our scheme prejudice our eligibility for the PPF?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Eligibility, Levy, Assessment Period
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

How have you used my bespoke stress information?

Published: 08/08/2012
Associated Subjects: New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13), Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals

How can a longevity contract be allowed for in a s179 valuation?

Published: 27/09/2011
Associated Subjects: S179 Valuations
Associated Roles: Pensions Professionals

Can the PPF change the law, or provide a binding interpretation of the existing law?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Legal Issues - General, PPF - General Information
Associated Roles: General Interest, Scheme members

What are the assumptions for the 2009/10 levy scaling factor?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Scaling Factor
Associated Roles: General Interest

Why is there a scheme-based levy multiplier?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Structure
Associated Roles: General Interest

Why won’t the PPF tell me how pensions legislation applies to my scheme?

Published: 14/09/2011
Associated Subjects: Eligibility, Legal Issues - General, Normal Pension Age (NPA)
Associated Roles: General Interest, Scheme members, Trustees

Can I have extra copies of the levy booklet accompanying the 2011/12 invoice?

Published: 26/08/2011
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2011/12
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Our scheme has been invoiced for both the 2010/11 and 2011/12 levy years within the same scheme financial year. Is this correct?

Published: 26/08/2011
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2011/12
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

An employer is listed as a participating employer as at the measurement date. The monthly failure scores held by D&B are a combination of industry averages and actual failure scores. How is the average score be calculated?

Published: 08/08/2012
Associated Subjects: D&B, Levy, New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13)
Associated Levy SubCategories: Insolvency Risk, D&B
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Our scheme has been invoiced for more than one Pension Protection levy year within the current levy year. Is this correct?

Published: 26/08/2011
Associated Subjects: Invoicing 2011/12
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Should derivatives held in respect of an LDI strategy be allocated to cash or can the total assets be allocated to bonds to better reflect the underlying risk profile of the assets held?

Published: 27/02/2012
Associated Subjects: New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13), Levy, Investment
Associated Levy SubCategories: Investment Risk
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

The proposed guarantor for a type A arrangement is an associate of an employer of the scheme but is also an employer of the scheme itself. Can it be the guarantor in a type A arrangement in these circumstances?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Contingent Assets
Associated Levy SubCategories: Contingent Assets
Associated Roles: General Interest

I am a last-man-standing scheme, how do I know if I am associated or non-associated?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Roles: General Interest

Which indices and yields are used in calculating the smoothed value of assets and liabilities?

Published: 08/08/2012
Associated Subjects: New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13), Levy, Invoicing 2012/13
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals

Your Guidance for Bespoke Stress Calculation for assessing investment risk states that this calculation should be carried out as at the same effective date as the most recently available audited scheme accounts and that asset values and exposures should be taken from information in these audited accounts. Since the date of the last audited accounts the trustees have made significant ‘de-risking’ changes in their investment strategy. In these circumstances do you still require the asset breakdown to be taken from the most recently audited accounts?

Published: 27/01/2012
Associated Subjects: New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13), Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Investment Risk, Exchange
Associated Roles: Employers, Trustees, Pensions Professionals

When will industry averages be available, as without them it is difficult to estimate bills?

Published: 16/01/2012
Associated Subjects: New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13), Levy, Insolvency, D&B
Associated Levy SubCategories: D&B, Insolvency Risk
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

Does the PPF accept data corrections to the data provided via the scheme return or voluntary certificates, as in 2006/07 and 2007/08?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Data Submission & Voluntary Certificates, Exchange
Associated Roles: Pensions Professionals

The asset breakdown & investment risk section of the scheme return states that the breakdown of assets should be taken from the most recently available audited scheme accounts. Since the date of the last audited accounts the trustees have made significant ‘de-risking’ changes in their investment strategy. In these circumstances do you still require the asset breakdown to be taken from the most recently audited accounts?

Published: 27/01/2012
Associated Subjects: Levy, New Levy Framework (Levy from 2012/13)
Associated Levy SubCategories: Exchange, Investment Risk
Associated Roles: Employers, Pensions Professionals, Trustees

The website crashed in the middle of my submission - what should I do?

Published: 30/03/2009
Associated Subjects: S120 Notice, Insolvency
Associated Roles: Insolvency Practitioners

When completing the annual Scheme Return issued by the Pensions Regulator in respect of a multi-employer scheme, how should I apportion orphan members, and members who cannot be assigned, to the remaining participating employers?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Levy SubCategories: Multi-Employer Schemes
Associated Roles: General Interest

What is the Pension Protection Fund’s definition of a sectionalised/segregated scheme?

Published: 16/06/2009
Associated Subjects: Levy
Associated Roles: General Interest

Pension Protection Fund

Media Centre

Email Alerts

FAQs