Welcome to your workplace pension
Everyone needs a plan for retirement. If you are considering joining your company's Group Stakeholder Pension plan or are already a member you can find out about the benefits of the plan here. It’s a great way for you to prepare for the retirement you want. When you start paying in, your employer will also start paying in. This site is designed to help you understand your pension and your Retirement Journey.
Scottish Widows can help you
- Understand your pension. Read the Joining Guide and click on the information below.
- Find out what you can do to help you plan for your future – see our Retirement page
- Access your pension online.
About your pension
Understanding your pension
Read all the literature below to understand more
- Joining Guide – this should answer most of your questions.
- Key Features – important information you need to read.
- Example Illustration – this shows our standard charges and how they could affect what you might get back. Your actual charges may be different from those shown, please see your personalised illustration for details of these.
- Nomination Form - So that we can take your wishes into account, please let us know who you want to leave your pension to in the event of your death. It’s easy to do this by completing a nomination form online. Alternatively please download the form, fill in the name(s) then sign it. You can post it to: Scottish Widows Workplace Savings, PO Box 24173, 69 Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 1HP.
- A Guide to Pension Tax
- Tapered Annual Allowance Explained
- Lifetime Allowance Explained
- Pension Death Benefits Explained
Unless your retirement is on the horizon, you may struggle to picture exactly what you’ll be doing in 20-40 years time. Our Retirement page can help you think about things that you should do whether you’re years from retirement or retiring soon.
Investment choices
Information on the investment choices available to you can be found here.
Your options are:
- Choose one of our Pension Investment Approaches based on your feelings about risk, how you currently intend to take your benefits and the way you want your money to be invested, and then let us manage this through to your retirement, or
- Be very ‘hands on’ and select from our collection of investment funds.
Guidance to making your investment choice
- Read our Pensions Investment Approaches Guide and our Pension Fund Investors Guide for information on the options available.
- Get the latest Fund Prices.
- If you want to switch your funds, we recommend speaking to a financial advisor (you'll normally be charged for this service). If you don't have a financial adviser you can find one in your local area at www.unbiased.co.uk. If you are clear on which fund you want to move to, you can call us on 0345 300 2443.
How do I join?
Once you have read the Key Features along with the Important Notes For Application simply complete the Joining Form and return it to your employer. Details of the terms and conditions of the plan can be found in the Policy Provisions.
Tools and calculators
Our range of tools can help you throughout your Retirement Journey.
Years from retirement and nearing retirement
- Cost Of Delay Calculator – find out the benefit of paying in today.
- Pay More Calculator – Calculate the benefits of increasing payments to your workplace pension
- Pension Payments Calculator – Find out ‘who pays what’ to your workplace pension
Retiring soon
- Pensions Options Calculator – calculate and compare your pension options – based on your pension pot
- Tax Calculator – Get an indication of how tax might be deducted if you decide to take a cash lump sum
What next?
Transferring existing pension plans
If you’ve decided to combine your pensions, did you know that doing it online could save you time? Simply log in online to transfer your pensions and combine them into one easy-to-manage plan.
Pension transfers require careful consideration as there are a number of things you need to understand before deciding if it’s right for you. We don’t offer financial advice as part of this process and we won’t compare pension charges for you, so you’ll be responsible for making sure that transferring is in your best interest.
KEEP IN TOUCH
We want to make sure we keep you up to date about your pension so you are in control of your retirement plans. To allow us to do that in these uncertain times, please complete the keep in touch form so we can keep you informed.
After reading the literature within the links on this page, we recommend that you either save or print a copy and keep this safe for future reference. Please contact Scottish Widows on 03457 556 557 for a paper copy of any of the above literature. The literature and materials available here will be reviewed and updated from time to time. You should check back regularly to make sure you are using the most up-to-date version available.
Pensions are a long-term investment. The retirement benefits you receive from your pension plan will depend on a number of factors including the value of your plan when you decide to take your benefits which isn't guaranteed, and can go down as well as up. The value of your plan could fall below the amount(s) paid in.
Scottish Widows is not providing you with advice on this site. If you have any queries as to whether this product is suitable for you, please contact your financial adviser.