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See what two leading independent experts think about some of the most common ways to save for your future.

See what two leading independent experts think about some of the most common ways to save for your future.

USS could provide valuable benefits to your family or other dependants, when you die: your spouse or civil partner could receive a dependant’s pension for life and any eligible children may also receive an income.

Contributions will continue to be processed for all members paying in to USS

Our retirement checklist will help you understand how to prepare for your future.

In a number of these areas USS has not in fact been investing – or not in recent times. USS Investment Management is required to act in the best financial interests of the scheme when making investment decisions, which means it is required to make decisions based on financial factors, over the long-term.

Technical notes and analysis relevant to our role and duties as trustee.

For the 2020 valuation, we’ve used a ‘dual discount rate’, which just means we use a different calculation to work out the current cost of future pension obligations for members paying into their pension and members that have retired.

If you were a USS member before 2016, you would’ve built your benefits in a different way to how you do now with the Retirement Income Builder and the Investment Builder. And if you left USS and later re-joined, you may have built up a mixture of benefits.