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Yes. If you had any period of active membership (where you were paying into USS) between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2024, and didn’t retire before 1 April 2024, a one-off pension uplift of £215 has been applied to your Retirement Income Builder benefits.

If you’re married, have a civil partner or are in a long-term relationship, it’s likely that your future and financial plans involve each other.

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This is the wording associated with the Paris Agreement, which legally binds its signatories to limiting global warming to well below 2° and preferably to 1.5°. We’re therefore working to keep to 1.5°, but the wording itself aligns to the Paris Agreement.

The trustee publishes a wide range of documents on its website relating to its investment strategies, principles, beliefs, policies, and activities.

This would be a matter for the Joint Negotiating Committee to consider. The trustee’s role is to protect benefits which have already been built up and to ensure that they can be paid when they fall due. The JNC is responsible for matters of benefit design.

You get life cover whilst paying in to USS. This means if you die whilst paying in, your loved ones may be able to get a lump sum of three times your salary – and a pension too.

We’ll base your contributions on your actual salary during the year – not the full-time equivalent.

You can only do this if you’re retiring from the role from which you get your USS benefits.