Nominations
From the date you join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), you get valuable life cover and financial protection for your family. There are two types of benefits we could pay if you die, a dependant's pension and a lump sum death grant.
For more information visit our What death benefits we pay webpage.
Keeping your expression of wish up to date is important. GMPF decides who to pay your death grant to and we have payment guidelines that help us do this, but we will always try to follow your wishes.
We must consider all relatives and dependants before making our decision so if the person or people you nominate are not your closest family, please consider telling us why.
You can check and change your nomination in My Pension.
If it’s been a few years since you updated your expression of wish, but nothing has changed, it helps us to know that your wishes are still relevant. You can confirm your details by going to My Pension and resaving your nomination information.
You can also update your death grant nomination by calling our Customer Services team on 0161 301 7000 and asking them to post a form to your home address.
Topping up your pension
There are ways you can grow your pension if you’d like to either retire with a larger pension or be able to retire earlier.
You can find out more about topping up your pension on our ‘Ways you can top up your pension’ webpage. For more information and to ask questions, you can also attend one of our upcoming ‘Topping up your pension’ online events.