Career breaks and your pension
What happens to your pension when work changes.
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The interactive feature
Situation finder
Choose a situation (parental leave, going part time, caring for someone, time between jobs) to see what changes and what can help.
The concept
- What it addresses
- Guidance on pensions during parental leave, part-time work, caring and time out of work.
- Who it is for
- Members taking a break from work or reducing their hours.
- Their main task
- Find out what happens to their pension in their situation and what they can do.
- The next step it offers
- Check their payments or speak to HR about options.
- Visual direction
- A finder of real situations, each opening to a short, specific page.
- Copy approach
- Clear and specific to the situation, with no assumptions about who takes the break.
Accessibility in this concept
- Situations are a list of links, not a carousel
- Each situation page has a one-line summary
- Definitions in place for every term
Accessibility review
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