Date you would like to start taking your benefits: please ensure that your selected date is within the next 12 months for your BTPS retirement quote to be based on. Along with your quote, if you are eligible for retirement, BTPS will provide a Pension Option Form. If you decide to retire you’ll need to complete and return this at least three months before you want your pension to start.

Accessing your quotes: we will ask the BTPS to produce a transfer quote and a retirement quote which we’ll use for your advice consultation. Your quotes will be available to view and download in the ‘My Documents’ section of the BTPS member portal. If you haven’t already done so, you can register for the portal at btps.co.uk. If you have an existing transfer quote, still within its three month guarantee period, BTPS won’t send you another one. Instead, they will share details of that quote with us. As the advice process can take two to three months, if you are actively considering transferring out, be aware of your guarantee expiry date as you progress through the advice process.