Approval of Pension Schemes of Public Bodies
- Letter to Personnel Officers 22 December 2014 - Reform of administrative arrangements for the establishment/approval of certain superannuation schemes in non-commercial state bodies
Cost Neutral Early Retirement (CNER)
- Letter to Personnel Officers 13 July 2005: Supplementary note to circular 10/2005
Family Law Guidelines and Allocation of Pension
- Letter to HR Managers 2 February 2021 - Circulation and Publication of New Public Service Family Law Guidelines
Injury Warrants
- Letter to Personnel Officers 11 April 1990 - Revised Injury Warrant Provisions
Pension Increase Policy
- Letter to HR Managers 18 December 2019 - Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) thresholds/rates changes and pension increases with respect to Pensionable Rate of Pay-affected grades :
- Letter to Personnel Officers 8 June 2021 - Application of pension increase policy to qualifying pensions arising from restoration of fixed allowances for serving public servants on 1 October 2020
Preserved Pension Benefits
- Letter to Personnel Officers 13 July 1976 - Non-Contributory Pension Scheme for non-established State Employees
- Letter to Personnel Officers 28 January 1982 - Preservation of Superannuation Benefits by Established Civil Servants
- Letter to Personnel Officers 31 May 2002 - Pension Scheme Members: reduction in qualifying period for preservation from five years to two
Professional Added Years (PAY)
- Letter to Personnel Officers 19 April 1985 - Ad hoc arbitration finding concerning the grant of added years to professional technical and specialist grades
- Letter to Personnel Officers 9 May 1988 - Scheme for the Grant of Professional Added Years for Superannuation Purposes to Staff of State Sponsored Bodies
- Letter of 21 December 1988 - Grant of added years to professional, technical and specialist civil servants under the terms of Circular 11/85 - Delegation of authority to certain Departments to make awards
- Letter to Departments 19 November 2004 - Revised scheme for the award of professional, technical and specialist added years to certain staff of State-Sponsored Bodies
Public Service Pension Reduction
- Letter to Payrolls 27 August 2013 – Aggregation of Pensions for the Purposes of PSPR
- Letter to HR Managers 18 December 2019 - Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) thresholds/rates changes and pension increases with respect to Pensionable Rate of Pay-affected grades
- Letter to HR Managers 21 May 2021 - Removal of the Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR)
Purchase of Notional Service
- Letter to Personnel Officers 27 April 1979 - Purchase of notional service for superannuation purposes
- Letter to Personnel Officers 28 September 1979 - Purchase of notional service for superannuation purposes
- Letter to Personnel Officers 31 December 1988 - Purchase of notional service for superannuation purposes by non-established State employees
- Letter to Personnel Officers 12 February 1990 - Revised scheme for the purchase of notional service for superannuation purposes by established civil servants
- Letter to Personnel Officers 14 March 1990 - Reckoning of career break period for Superannuation Purposes
- Letter to Personnel Officer of 17 June 1994 - Purchase of service for Superannuation Purposes by job-sharers
- Letter to Personnel Officers of 31 July 1997 - Revised contribution rates for purchase of notional service by persons appointed to established civil service positions on or after 6 April 1995 covered by Class A insurance
- Letter to Personnel Officers 28 October 1998 - Additional Voluntary Contribution Scheme and refund in cases of excess purchase of notional year for pension purchases
- Letter to Personnel Officers of 3 May 2005 and 5 May 2005 - Revised Contribution Rates for Purchase of Notional Service
Redeployment (Pension Implications)
- Letter to Personnel Officers of 20 September 2005 - Rate to be charged for pension contributions in respect of civil servants who are seconded to bodies outside the civil service
- Letter to Personnel Officers 22 December 2011 - Pension Contribution in respect of Secondments and Redeployments
Secondment (Pension Implications)
- Letter to Personnel Officers of 20 September 2005 - Rate to be charged for pension contributions in respect of civil servants who are seconded to bodies outside the civil service
- Letter to Personnel Officers 22 December 2011 - Pension Contribution in respect of Secondments and Redeployments
Transfer of Service and the PSTN
- Letter to Personnel Officers 24 April 1979 - Draft Transfer Scheme
- Letter to Personnel Officers 17 December 1979 - Transfer of pension rights to the EEC
- Letter to Personnel Officers 30 January 1981 - Transfer of Service for Superannuation Purposes
- Letter to Personnel Officers 14 July 2006 (to certain Network members) Public Sector Transfer Network (PSTN) Revised Transfer Value Tables
