Pensioner Representation.

All pensioners of the company are able to vote for representatives to the Joint Pensioners Committee (JPC). These elected representatives meet with the Pension Scheme management at Farnborough at quarterly JPC meetings. Some of the representatives also sit on sub-committees which address various specific issues or projects.

For pensioners of the former British Aerospace and its predecessor companies (the 'Main Scheme'), the country is divided into eight areas, each of which elects two representatives to the JPC. There is a similar arrangement for pensioners of Royal Ordnance (RO) and the former GEC-Marconi (the '2000' scheme) who are now BAE Systems pensioners - they elect their own representatives to the JPC, based on their own area groupings.

About a month before each JPC meeting, the JPC reps from Area 8 (Main Scheme) and from the RO and 2000 schemes whose constituencies include the South West and South Wales, meet with representatives of the pensioner associations in the area. This is the Area 8 committee meeting, and provides a forum in which the local groups can, via their representatives, discuss local issues and also the issues that the JPC is addressing.

Our elected JPC representatives for Area 8 Main Scheme are David Moakes and Peter Aze. For the 2000 Scheme our representatives are Jim Pearce and John Porter, and for the Royal Ordnance Scheme our representative is Frank Spencer.

As well as discussing pension scheme matters with the scheme management at Farnborough, the JPC reps are also able to raise specific issues on behalf of individual pensioners. Although there are well- publicised telephone helplines that should always be tried first, sometimes problems require the perspective of a fellow pensioner.

The Area 8 committee members of your local association should be the second port of call for problems (the first being the telephone helplines).

If you can't get in touch with your local association Area 8 committee member, the JPC representatives can be contacted by the telephone numbers given on our printed newsletter, or via e-mail at:

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