Benefits and Discounts in Civil Service

Civil Service

Civil Service in the United Kingdom only includes Crown employees. Employees in parliamentary field, teachers and National Health Service employees are not considered as Civil servants. County or city employees are also not regarded as civil servants.

Civil servants are mainly employed by Governmental organizations on the basis of professional merit conducted through competitive examinations.

Benefits and Discounts offered for Civil Servants

Loads of benefits are on offer for all civil servants who have served their respective organizations. Salaries are almost at par with industrial standards, apart from that, various other benefits and incentives such as child-care vouchers, flexi-time working, pension scheme benefits, are also available.

Let's see a few benefits in brief.

Civil Service Benevolent fund (CSBF)

The CSBF team provides help to civil servants by giving proper advice and financial assistance in regard to investments, increasing savings level etc.

This kind of assistance is not only for the employees, but even for the dependants and family members of the employees.
Special assistance regarding debt management, housing mortgage loans etc. can also be availed.

Civil Service Healthcare

CS Healthcare provides low budget health insurance scheme which is applicable for the employees those who have worked, are working in any of the Civil Service organizations.
Any surplus funds are re-invested into the society which helps in keeping the insurance premiums at the lowest rate possible.
Your Choice health plan allows employees to choose different schemes that suit them the best by hand-picking the services they want to avail.
Various services ranging from Heart Diagnostics, Cancer Expertise, In-patient ward, Out-patient ward, Dental care, and special department for women etc. can be customized into your plan.
Other benefits such as
Access to over 300 hospitals
Free advice from doctors in their respective areas of expertise.
Quick settlement of any issue that may arise during the course of treatment.

Civil Service Insurance Society (CSIS)

CSIS provides insurance for homes and cars at very specially negotiated prices especially for civil servants who are working, retired and their partners.
There are no admin fees, hidden or any extra charges.
Pay through Direct Debit for car and home insurance without any extra cost, on a monthly basis.
Online application for car insurance can avail you an extra 10% discount.
Avail specialized services from qualified professionals.
Specialized ID theft assistance helpline for home loan insurance for free.

CSSC Sports & Leisure

Membership to CSSC Sport & leisure costs about £ 3 a month, for which there is a huge range of sport and leisure activities that are on the list to choose from.
Be it Athletics, Track and Field, Indoor games, outdoor games or Gym. All of these facilities can be availed by becoming a member.
CSSC Games event is held twice every year which goes on for a span of 2 days. This event draws thousands of competitors throughout the UK who exhibit their talent in their respective sport.
This is exclusively for the benefit of employees who are working or have worked for any civil service organization in the UK.
The CSSC Sports & leisure department also has a team that deploys health and fitness centre right in the working area. Specialized team draws a blueprint of the fitness centre and helps in tackling the difficulties that may arise while building the fitness centre.

Pension Schemes

There are various Pension Schemes for employees that belong to different work group. They may be classified into

Classic
Classic Plus
Nuvos
Partnership
Premium

All the above schemes have different benefits according to their levels, department and categories that the employees fall into.

Each scheme issues an Annual Benefit Statement that allows you to have a clear view regarding the amount of pension that you have received and also gives you a picture of what is in the pipeline in the near future.

Civil Service Pensions Injury Benefits Scheme (CSPIBS)

CSPIBS scheme provides benefits to employees who have sustained injuries (Physical/Mental) and are incapable of earning or their earning capacity is reduced due to the injury sustained while on duty.
Stringent measures are taken to test whether the injury sustained is serious and it actually disables the employee from earning, only then the benefits are awarded to the employee.

Death Benefits

In case the employee dies while in service, Death benefit becomes valid (no minimum period of qualifying service is required).

Any former member who dies after retiring with a pension or annual compensation schemes is also a valid beneficiary.

Death Benefit is paid to the
Nominee - who the employee might have nominated while he was alive in case of valid nomination.

Personal Representative - who holds 'Grant of Probate' or 'Will' or produces the Letter of Administration if the member dies intestate.

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