Were you a former Gas Board employee during the 1960s and 1970s?
Who?
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Were you a Gas Board worker in the 1960s and 70s?
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Did you pay into a pension?
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You may have an EPB.
What?
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When you left the company, you will have had a pension refund
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A small portion of pension was left in the scheme
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EPBs are payable when you reach age 60 (women) or age 65 (men).
For the whole period (1961 – 1975) the benefit would be £45.50 a year.
Why?
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A number of mergers and de-mergers over the years means National Grid Plc is now responsible for former gas industry pensions
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As part of the changes, you were ‘contracted out’ of the existing ‘graduated’ state pension scheme
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However the company had to make sure you still received the maximum pension you could have received if you had stayed in the Scheme.