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Early leavers

Flowchart 1 Early leaver - new rights

Early leaver - new rights

Three months condition

On the date on which pensionable service terminates, the peiod of the member's pensionable service under the scheme, taken together with:

  • any previous period of their pensionable service under the scheme; and
  • any period throughout which they were employed in * linked qualifying service under another scheme, amounts to at least three months.
* 'Linked qualifying service' means actual service in a previous scheme which gives rise to a transfer credit, whcih ranks as qualifying service (s179 PSA 93). Only service which has been transferred in to another scheme, and which gives rise to benefits under that scheme, can be linked qualifying service.
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