Regulators and Advisory Bodies

A list of regulatory and advisory bodies for pension schemes.

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MAPS helps people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, they make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, how and when they need it.
 

In cases where a complaint or dispute cannot be resolved, and TPAS has been unable to help, an application can be made to the Pensions Ombudsman for an adjudication. The Ombudsman can investigate and determine any complaint or dispute of fact or law involving occupational pension schemes. The services of the Ombudsman are available to scheme members, beneficiaries and prospective members of schemes.

Address: 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU

The Pensions Regulator is the UK regulator of work-based pension schemes. It works with trustees and employers, giving guidance on what is expected of them. It also now acts as the Registrar of Occupational & Personal Pension Schemes.

The Financial Ombudsman Service provides consumers with a free, independent service for resolving disputes with financial firms.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers.

The Pension Service (part of the Department for Work and Pensions and helps with State Pension eligibility, claims and payments).

If you can no longer trace previous pension benefits The Pension Tracing Service can help you find them.

The FCA aims to make financial markets work well so that consumers get a fair deal. They regulate Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs).

Citizens Advice Bureau gives people the knowledge and confidence they need to find their way forward. Their network of charities offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free.

Contact Us

 : Pensions Office
       University of Oxford

       c/o Oxford University Press
       Great Clarendon Street
       Oxford OX2 6DP

 : OSPS - osps@admin.ox.ac.uk
       USS - uss@admin.ox.ac.uk
       NHSPS - oxnhsps@admin.ox.ac.uk
       NEST - nest@admin.ox.ac.uk
       Auto-enrolment - 
       ox.autoenrolment@admin.ox.ac.uk
 : General - (01865) 616133
       USS - (01865) 616067
       OSPS - (01865) 616020