Information for retired members
Keeping in touch
Please let us know your e-mail address so that we can quickly keep in touch with you.
Changes to Fund administration
The University and the Trustee have decided to outsource the day-to-day running of the University of York Pension Fund to a third-party administrator and have chosen First Actuarial LLP. Over the next few months, services will start to move across to First Actuarial LLP. This will include the payment of pensions, which First Actuarial will take over from November 2024.
The full transition of services is expected to take place in 2025 and members will be written to with a further update at that time. Until then, please continue to contact the University's in-house Pensions Team with any queries you may have.
If you are in receipt of a pension from the Fund you will have received a letter outlining the changes. A further copy of the letter and the updated Privacy Notice can be found at the bottom of this page in the "Documents" section.
Payslips
Payslips produced up to and including October 2024 can be viewed using the University’s e-Payslip system.
Payslips produced from November 2024 onwards can be viewed using First Actuarial’s “my ePayslip Window” system. If you have already signed up for the University’s e-Payslip system, you will receive an email directly from my ePayslip Window about registering for access.
If you do not register for my ePayslip Window, then you will receive paper copies of your payslips instead. These will be sent to your home address. Paper payslips are only issued when your pay changes by more than £5 from the amount you were paid in the previous month.
If you want to sign up to receive your payslips digitally then please contact pensions@york.ac.uk who will arrange for you to receive an activation email.
Pensions increase
An increase will be applied to pensions in payment effective from 1 April 2024. For members who have been receiving their pension for more than one year at that date, and for all dependant's pensions, an increase of 6.70% (in excess of the Guaranteed Minimum Pension - GMP) will be paid.
For pension built up on or after 1 April 2023, the rate of increase awarded is capped at 5% for this part of your pension only.
For those in receipt of their pensions for less than one year, a partial increase will be applied.
We will write to members in January 2025 to let them know if an increase will be applied in April 2025, and if so, what rate of increase will apply.
Documents
Retired Member's Annual Report