Annual total of public sector pension payments

Summary

The requester asked for the number of public sector pension recipients and total payment sums for the last financial year and 2016. The authority responded by directing the requester to published Operational Reports and Annual Accounts on their website, noting that audited figures for the most recent year were not yet available.

Key Facts

• The Public Sector Pensions Authority directs users to quarterly Operational Reports for pension data.
• Audited accounts for the last financial year have not yet commenced and are unavailable.
• Historical data for 2016 is available via the PSPA website's pension scheme accounts section.
• The request explicitly excluded state retirement pension information.
• The case was closed on 2022-05-05 with all available information provided via links.

Data Disclosed

• 2401789
• 2022-04-22
• 2022-05-05
• 2016
• 3 pages
• 1 document

Original Request

Please can you confirm the following: 1. How many persons are currently in receipt of any type of IOM Government public sector pension scheme payment? 2. What was the total overall sum of such public sector pension payments in the last financial year? 3. What was such total overall sum in 2016? Please note that the information requested has nothing to do with the state retirement pension. Thank you

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

1. I would kindly refer you to the quarterly Operational Reports that the Public Sector Pensions Authority publishes on its website www.pspa.im.
   They can be accessed via following link: https://www.gov.im/about-the- government/statutory-boards/public-sector-pensions-authority/about-the- pspa/who-is-the-public-sector-pensions-authority/pspa-operational-reports/

Please note, that the Public Sector Pensions Authority is statutorily required to have its accounts audited annually. The audit of last financial year’s accounts has not yet commenced, thus we are unable to disclose this information in the form of audited figures, approved by Tynwald and available as Annual Reports and Accounts, which the PSPA publishes on its website. The audited Annual Reports and Accounts so far laid before Tynwald can be accessed via following link: https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/statutory-boards/public- sector-pensions-authority/about-the-pspa/pension-scheme-accounts/

1. I would advise you, that this information is available on the PSPA’s website, following this link: https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/statutory- boards/public-sector-pensions-authority/about-the-pspa/pension-scheme- accounts/

Please quote the reference number 2401789 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely