About the Fund
Joining the LGPS. Who can join?
The LGPS is offered by Local Government Employers and by other organisations that have chosen to participate in it.
If you are eligible for membership of the LGPS, you will automatically become a member, unless you are employed by an admission body in which case you would have to opt to join. You have the right to decide not to join the Scheme.
To be able to join the LGPS you need to have a contract of employment that's for at least three months, be under age 75 and work for an employer that offers membership of the Scheme. If you are employed by a designated body, such as a town or parish council, or by a non-local government organisation which participates in the LGPS (an admission body), you can only join if your employer nominates you for membership of the Scheme.
Teachers, police officers, operational firefighters and, normally, employees eligible to join another statutory pension scheme (such as the NHS Pension Scheme) are not allowed to join the LGPS.
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