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If you move from Flying Staff to Ground Staff or vice versa your Normal retirement age, pension Build up rate and pension Contribution rate will change.

Before you change occupations you have two choices.

1. Keep aside the APS pension that has built up for the Pensionable service in the old occupation. Then start a separate pension in the new occupation. The new pension would be in the NAPS Scheme not the APS Scheme.
2. Convert your previous Pensionable service to Pensionable service in your new occupation. Your previous Pensionable service will be adjusted to reflect any differences between the Build up rates and Normal retirement age.

If you change from Flying Staff to Ground Staff at or after Normal retirement age you can:

1. convert your Flying Staff service to Ground Staff service in APS or
2. take a pension for your Flying Staff service and draw this straight away or defer it until you finally retire. You can start building up a pension in NAPS for future service.

Normal Retirement:

• Ground Staff - Age 60
• Flying Staff – Age 55

NAPS Build up rates

If you start a new pension in the NAPS Scheme, the following Build up rates/Contribution rates apply:

You can currently change rates once a year on 1 October by completing the NAPS options form.

The contribution rates shown in the tables above are inclusive of the 1.5% contributions for Adult Survivor's pension cover. Contributions in respect of Members who do not pay for the Adult Survivor's pension cover will be 1.5% lower than the rates shown.