FEDERATION
DBS Checks: For spouses/ partners returning to the UK permanently from living overseas
Youwould be well advised to request adocument from your Station’s OC Personnel Services Flight, Chief Clerk or other similar authority to confirm that you (as the departing individual) has not had any civil or service disciplinary action taken against you for the duration of your overseas
tour.Itwill also include that there are no outstanding investigations against you. This type of document can be useful when applying for DBS clearances when applying for work.
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Quick Tips
The SFACompensation Scheme
There is auseful factsheet on the Compensation Scheme for those of you living in SFA. It covers missed appointments and significant defects at the Move-In stage.
The effective date of the scheme is 1April 2017; no claims for compensation for events prior to that date will be considered.
“£30 compensation for each occurrence.”
Missed appointments can be the cause of much frustration to you as SFAoccupants, especially when you are not kept informed if an appointment may be missed in real time. Therefore, in the event that IPsfail to attend apre-arranged appointment within the agreed appointment window,and do not provide adequate notice of this, then you, as the occupant may claim for aMissed Appointment. The level of compensation will be £30 for each individual occurrence.
There is more detail to this element as well as the Significant Defect(s) breakdown on the factsheet, including details on how to make aclaim.
For the factsheet, go to
gov.uk/government/ publications/sfa-compensation-scheme-claim- fact-sheet
Is your death in service paperwork up to date? Essential if you are on the AFPS 05 or AFPS 15 pension schemes.
Sergeant Andy Hughes was deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 and being asingle person, he saw nothing amiss in nominating afriend to receive any lump sum due under Armed Forces Pension Scheme 05, should he die. Andy survived his deployment and returned to the UK. Three years later in August 2016, he married Charlotte.
In October 2016 Andy Hughes died as aresult of acar crash. Although he had visited his orderly room and changed his will and next of kin details –and thought he had done everything right, he had not changed his death benefit nomination. As such, Veterans UK paid the death in service lump sum –awhacking £120,000 –to Sergeant Hughes’s original nominee.
If you are aMember of the Forces Pension Society and have question about this or any other pension-related issue, email
pensionenquiries@forpen.co.uk. If you are not aMember but would like to know more about FPS, visit
forcespensionsociety.org/
raf-ff.org.uk
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