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The SPP is the representative body for a wide range of providers of pensions advice and services to schemes, trustees and employers including actuaries, accountants, lawyers, investment managers, administrators, professional trustees, covenant assessors, consultants and pension specialists.
Our role is not consumer facing. However, we have provided links below to publicly available sources of information and support which you can use if you have any questions about your pension. We hope these resources prove useful for you.
Find more information about your Pension
You can use these services to find contact details for a workplace or personal pension scheme and search for a lost pension.
Check Your State Pension Forecast
You can use this service to find out more about your State Pension.
Pension Credit is aimed to help those over State Pension age and on a low income.
If you have a problem with your Pension
An independent organisation established to deal with complaints about occupational or personal pension schemes.
Telephone: 0800 917 4487.
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)
Help resolve problems with workplace pensions, personal pensions or annuities.
Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)
A compensatory body relating to schemes authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Telephone: 0800 678 1100.
Providing compensation for defined benefit members when their scheme doesn’t have enough funds to pay the promised pension.
The Basics of Pensions
We appreciate pensions are complex, which is why we recently sat down with industry experts to provide you with an overview of:
- The various types of pensions that are available in the UK
- The key features of workplace, private and state pensions
- The differences between trust and contract-based pensions
- Who regulates which pension schemes and how
Our full series of Beginner’s Guides are aimed at early career pension professionals, but are open to the public too.
Pay Your Pension Some Attention
Pension Attention is an industry-led engagement campaign aimed at the public.