getting pension from NHS after divorce pension order

My partner's pension is part of his assets and needs to be aggregated with his ex-wife's pension and the house he gave her as part of the separation agreement and then split. It depends what your divorce agreement says. When I divorced, my ex and I went for a clean break, which means neither of us can claim anything from each other.

My partner is going through this at the moment - from the other side. His ex-wife has a court order for some of his pension. It's quite complicated and he's had to use a financial advisor.

welbeck, that is fab advice thank you, I hadn't thought of AgeUK

if you get stuck, you could try Age UK for advice; they are for over 55s, and will try to help or point towards others sources of advice.
good luck.

Thank you Visgirl, I wish I had known all this before hand. Sorry I thought I had replied to you and have just logged in and found out it hadn't posted.

Good luck with all of this.

However I have a NHS pension in my own right and we are told to give at least 3 months notice, before we need it.
So fingers crossed you might get it paid in quickly but just to give you the heads up.. Put it in as soon as possible.

Luckygirl13 thank you that is helpful - your reply has also made me think that I should contact them and ask for some sort of pension statement too in advance of claiming for it; I am glad you got it sorted, it doesnt seem fair you had to go through that in those sad circumstances.

I have claimed an NHS pension on my OH's contributions as his widow.

I am sorry to say that they were very very slow to even reassure me that I was the named person for post mortem benefits. As you can imagine, this was very worrying at a very sad time.

Eventually they did confirm that a proportion of the pension was due to me. They paid the lump sum and started to pay in the pension monthly. Bizarrely - after a couple of months - they got in touch and said they had got the amount wrong, leading to a certain amount of panic! However, it was wrong in my favour, and I am being paid far more than I had expected - I hope that this goes for you too.

I too filled in forms that did not seem appropriate as there was the assumption that you were the retired NHS worker. But I did manage to sort it in the end.

Good luck with all this.