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OUTCOME OF THE GURKHA TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE REVIEW
On
8 March 2007, Derek Twigg, Under Secretary of State for Defence and Minister
for Veterans, announced the result of the wideranging and comprehensive review
of Gurkha Terms and Conditions of Service. With certain exceptions to satisfy
the Government of Nepal, the terms and conditions of service of Gurkhas will
in future be the same as those of their British counterparts.
The new terms and conditions include an offer to serving Gurkhas to transfer from the Gurkha Pension Scheme to one of the Armed Forces pension schemes. Retired Gurkhas who gave service on or after 1 July 1997 are also eligible for the Gurkha Offer To Transfer (GOTT). This includes Gurkhas who left service before this date withcondoned service, without which their engagement or commission would have continued to 1 July 1997 or later. Those who left on redundancy terms before 1 July 1997 are not eligible.
Gurkhas were an overseas-based force before 1 July 1997 and therefore in a different position from the rest of the British Army. Only Gurkhas with service on or after 1 July 1997 (and those with condoned service) are being given the opportunity to join the same pension schemes as those available to other Armed Forces personnel. All their service, including that given before 1 July 1997, will be taken into account, if they decide to transfer their benefits into one of the two Armed Forces Pension Schemes. Service on or after 1 July 1997 will be given a credit of year-for-year in AFPS, while service before that date will have a credit worth broadly the same as the benefits earned in the Gurkha Pension Scheme before that date.
The GOTT Service Centre will shortly be writing to eligible retired Gurkhas at their last registered address. This is to ensure that they receive their information packs, which will be sent out during the summer. The MOD are asking those who think that their details are not correct to contact the GOTT Service Centre.
A briefing
team from the Ministry of Defence will conduct roadshows in Nepal and Brunei,
as well as a number of locations in the UK, to explain the details of the
GOTT to eligible retired Gurkhas.
GOTT Service Centre, Mail Point 601, SPVA
(Glasgow), Kentigern House, 65 Brown
Street, Glasgow, G2 8EX, United Kingdom
Tel : +44 141 224 3600 [Select option
5 when prompted]
BT Fax: +44 1962 887167
Service Centre Hours 0830 - 1630 BST
EMail: gurkha-ott@worthydown.afpaa.mod.uk
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