| The Association of Members of IBM UK Pensions Plans (AMIPP) |
| This page amended June 2007 |
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| Home | This is the entry page for the website. |
| How to use | This page |
| Forum | The way we know what you are thinking. |
| News | This has the newsletters and documents in date order. |
| Register | Get an email when there is a newsletter released. |
| Change email address | When your email address changes. |
| Lost members | Please help us maintain the list of email addresses |
| Situation | The overview of what has happened and is happening. |
| How to help | If you want to be involved. |
| Contact AMIPP | AMIPP promotes member interests and maintains this site. |
| Elections | Your representatives on the Trust Board |
| Our Trust | What our Trust and IBM said. |
| Comparisons | How IBM compares |
| Links | External links, to Government organisations, the US sites, etc |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| Documents | Grouped by topic. |
| Actives | Special interest for actives |
| Deferreds | Special interest for deferreds |
| Retirees | Special interest for retirees |
| Shareholders | Proposals to vote on, etc. |
| South Africa | Of special interest to members of the South African IBM scheme |
| Complaints | Summary and text of complaints, some are with the Ombudsman |
| Westminster | Government and MP matters. |
| Legal | Legal considerations, which includes what the Ombudsman does. |
| Historical | More detail the earlier days. |
| Message archive | Thousands of messages. |
To a degree, the source of documents in this website (as opposed to ones reached by linking outside of the website) will be indicated. The documents with no obvious source will be those that are on the message board and anonymous. Documents which are the work of an individual will be attributed. Documents which are not attributed have been peer reviewed within AMIPP and may be collaborative.
All pages on the website are liable to become less relevant, and less correct, with the passage of time. It is not practical to continuously update all the pages, and to do so would lose historical value.
There will inevitably be some wrong information, missing links, and other flaws on the website. Please tell the Webmaster if you encounter anything, unless it is just obsolete information in the archive section.
Some documents were entered using Optical Character Recognition of printed paper. This can introduce differences from the original. Please tell the Webmaster if think you have spotted a significant flaw.
About terminology. We tend to use the term "retirees" rather than "pensioners" for people who have occupational pensions, to distinguish them from state pensioners. The "complainants" are people who have complained, usually referring only to those that wound up making the example complaints to the Ombudsman. IBM UK and the IBM UK Pensions Trust are different companies and we use the term "respondents" to cover both.
Throughout this site we are using the term 'C-Plan' to refer to all the defined benefit pension plans currently and formerly provided by IBM (for example, N,E,A,B,Q & T Plans). The terms 'defined benefit' and 'final salary' mean the same here. The M-Plan is a 'money purchase' plan, synonymous with 'defined contribution'.