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If, after you’ve taken the chance to explore our dedicated 2017 valuation pages, you have any questions on the process that we’ve not been able to answer here, you can submit them to a specialist team by using the Contact Us form.

University and College Union (UCU) is the body that represents members on the Joint Negotiating Committee

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USS will ensure your loved ones are looked after if the worst were to happen.

USS has made and continues to make significant commitments to reduce climate change. We’re aiming to be Net Zero for our investments by 2050, if not before. We’ve invested £200m in Bruc Energy, a Spanish solar energy platform. We have over £1.9bn either invested or committed to renewables.

News headlines about the impact volatile financial markets are having on pensions might feel alarming, but please be reassured that the short-term pressures being experienced by some pension schemes have not been a problem for USS, and our ability to pay members’ pensions remains unaffected.

Rising inflation’s still making the headlines, despite everything else that’s going on, and there’s little comfort in being told it won’t last forever because most of us are feeling the effects now.

Find out what these changes mean to you

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.