DOF – CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS FUTURE SERVICE DELIVERY

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Lot 1: Civil Service Pensions procured an integrated active, deferred and pensioner member administration and financial services system (including pensioner payroll) and a number of support services, in respect of the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) Pension Schemes and associated schemes, including: • Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (Northern Ireland) [PCSPS(NI)]; • Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014; • Civil Service Compensation Scheme (Northern Ireland) [CSCS (NI)]; • Civil Service Injury Benefit Scheme (Northern Ireland) [CSIBS (NI)]; • Northern Ireland Civil Service Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme (NICSAVCS); • Northern Ireland Partnership Pension Account Ill Health Benefits Scheme; • Northern Ireland Partnership Pension Account Death Benefits Scheme; • Supplementary Earnings Cap Scheme; and, • Unregistered Death Benefit Scheme (Northern Ireland). The NICS Pension Schemes provide retirement benefits for civil servants and other Non-Departmental Public Bodies employees eligible to join the schemes. The contract also included the provision of paying agent services in respect of two small, closed pension schemes, as well as other public service pensioners who are not members of the NICS Pension Schemes.