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As stated the RPS is now more like an average salary scheme. Say someone was a guard for 10 years, then a driver for 10 years. You would not get 20 years RPS based on your final drivers salary, but 10 years (of course you would have the 10 years as a guard pension too).
All pension payments attract tax relief at 20% or 40% dpending on if you are a higher rate payer. You would get the same relief if paying into any sipp. Yes, some people like fact this is done on their salary and they don't have anything to sort out but it is not some magical RPS only thing...
There is a huge misunderstanding of BRASS. It was an excellent option when there was brass matching by companies (this is why many older railway workers are so enthusiastic about it). This does not happen for new entrants and hasn't for a long time. BRASS has no more tax advantages than any...
Can you tell us some more about the telecoms apprenticeship and nr telecoms in general as it one of the schemes with smaller numbers vs say track? Typical day to day tasks etc? Thanks.
Yes, NSE installed DOO mirrors on the windsor side - Barnes still had it for years until the platform extension. Did NSE ever actually run services on the windsor side as DOO?
Am I correct in thinking as the old "off-peak" has been abolished, then now you have to buy a anytime for any travel out of kings cross before 09.06, where as off peak were valid before 06.45 and after 07.59? So that is a piss take from LNER - the 08.00 ex KX was always a very popular with...
No-one can give you accurate pension advice other than an IFA as personal circumstances vary massively. Even moving from CARE to RPS is not automatically the best choice for all.
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