Deferred pension/preserved pension

1. A pension based on accrued benefits from an individual’s membership of a previous pension scheme. The preserved benefits remain frozen until the scheme’s normal retirement age for members with two or more years service. In final salary schemes the deferred pension can attract See discretionary benefits. DEFERRED PENSIONER. 2. The term is also used when a member takes a pension later than the normal retirement age.

Deferred pensioner

A former active member of an occupational pension scheme whose benefits remain in the scheme as preserved benefits until transferred to a new scheme or a personal pension or drawn as a pension at a later date. See DEFERRED PENSION.