National Insurance Database Information for LGPS Members

All LGPS funds in England, Wales and Scotland participate in a data sharing project.

This is undertaken in order to comply with legal requirements contained in the LGPS’s governing regulations.

Provisions contained in the LGPS Regulations 2013 mean that, if a member of the LGPS dies, it is necessary for the scheme’s administrators to know if the individual also had other periods of LGPS membership elsewhere in the country so that the right death benefits can be paid to the deceased member’s dependants.

As the LGPS is locally administered, each pension fund has its own membership records and it can be difficult to tell if an individual has other LGPS records and where these are held.

To comply with the requirements of the regulations, a national database has been developed that will enable funds to check if their members have LGPS pension records in other pension funds.

For more information, please download the document found on this page