Firefighters' pension scheme: employee contributions

The proposed changes to the firefighters’ pension schemes in England are:

• increased levels of employee contribution rates, effective from 1 April 2012
• the introduction of tiered contribution levels, so that higher earners will pay a higher rate of contribution
• different levels of increase for the firefighters’ pension scheme (1992) and new firefighters’ pension scheme (2006)
• the specific handling of contributions for retained and part-time firefighters