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Please complete the Registration of potential dependant form. We recommend that you update this at least every three years so we know it’s up to date, even if your wishes haven’t changed.

Use our Benefit Calculator to look at your personalised estimated pension benefits with USS. You can also take a look at our retirement timeline for what you need to do and when.

While we’re unable to discuss the recent press coverage relating to Thames Water, we can point to Thames Water’s latest announcement on shareholder funding.

Read about the next steps in the latest update on the 2020 valuation.

Reporting season is once again upon us, and this year marks the second iteration of our Stewardship Code Report. We became a signatory to the new Stewardship Code last year, and to retain this status, we submitted a 2021/22 report to the FRC at the end of April 2022. The Code comprises a set of 12 ‘apply and explain’ Principles for asset managers and asset owners, and our report must evidence how we have applied them over the previous year.

We’ve updated USS’s Investment Builder ethical investment options to incorporate a more explicit focus on sustainable investing.

Find out how savvy you are when it comes to spotting a scam – take our quiz.

The Lump Sum Allowance (LSA) is the limit on the total amount of certain tax-free lump sums that you will be able to receive before marginal rate taxation applies. The limit is £268,275 but may be higher if you have a former Lifetime Allowance (LTA) protection.

USS, in collaboration with three institutional investors and climate change specialists, Acclimatise, has launched “Managing the Unavoidable: investment implications of a changing climate”.