St Andrew's Day
Our phone lines will be closed on Friday 28 November and will re-open on Monday 1 December at 9am.
Member Update
We’re prioritising the 2015 Remedy and experiencing high enquiry volumes. For information on your pension, life events, or bereavement, please use the information available on your scheme’s home page:
Visit the 2015 Remedy Hub for all the latest Remedy information.
For any enquires regarding the Pension Dashboard, please use the Webform below
Having trouble receiving your pension?
If you're experiencing issues with receiving your pension payments, please let us know by completing our contact form. A member of our team will get back to you as soon as possible.
If you are an NHS, Teachers, Police or Firefighter scheme member, contact us using our webform.
You will need your National Insurance Number and Scheme Reference Number, You can find these details on your payslip.
For all other enquiries, please use the options below:
Employers, Solicitors and Third Party Representatives
Employers and Third Parties Only
If you need to contact us please use the following email addresses. Member should not use the email addresses below you should contact us via the webform https://pensions.gov.scot/contact-us
NHS and Teachers Retirement applications
- NHS: SPPAnhsretapp@gov.scot
- STPS: stssretirementapp@gov.scot
Bereavements Team: bereavementsteam@gov.scot
Service/Transaction enquiries, in relation to opting in and out, additional benefit contracts etc: sppaserviceinternal@gov.scot
Injury Benefits (NHS): sppainjury@gov.scot
Pension Sharing on Divorce (PSOD): psod@gov.scot
For transfer-related enquiries: sppatransfers@gov.scot
Employer Data submissions: sppaedm-enquiry@gov.scot
Employer Contribution enquiries: sppa-finance@gov.scot
Police and Fire Employers For all Employer and Third Party enquiries please use: Sppapolice&fireemployers@gov.scot
Scottish Legal Aid Board Enquiry
To submit an enquiry please email the Scottish Legal Aid Board Team
Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme Enquiry
To submit an enquiry please email the MSP Team
The Local Government Pension Scheme Enquiry
SPPA is responsible for maintaining and updating the scheme’s regulations in line with policies determined by the Scottish and UK Governments. SPPA also deals with Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure’s and provides policy guidance to ministers and to the scheme’s advisory board. We do not hold pension records for individual employees or Local Government Pension Scheme records for scheme members, this is held with the relevant Pension Fund.
To enquire about an IDRP Stage 2 application, or to submit your application form, please email IDRPApplications@gov.scot
For all other pension enquiries relating to your Local Government Pension, you should contact your Pension Fund directly. Information regarding the 11 local government administering authorities in Scotland can be found on our Find out more about your local government pension fund page
Make a complaint
If your want to contact us regarding a complaint please email us at SPPAcustomercare@gov.scot
This should only be used to raise a complaint and should not be used for general correspondence.
Freedom of Information Enquiry
Media Enquiry
Telephone Number and Postal Address
If you want to contact us with a Pension query, please consider using the webform above to do this. Using webform ensures that we have all the information we need to deal with your query and get it to the correct team so that we can respond as quickly as possible with what you need.
Our postal address
Scottish Public Pensions Agency, 7 Tweedside Park, Tweedbank, Galashiels, TD1 3TE
Our office isn't open to members of the public. Unfortunately, this means that if you arrive at our office, our staff will not be able to discuss your pension with you. You are still able to drop documents to our office in person, should you require