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DS T H E T R A D E 262 9 JOURNAL Freedom of the City of Derby to RN Submarine Service Granted 28 April 2002 Derbyshire Submariners Newsletter Issue Number 262 July 2021 EDITORIAL PAGE/S CONTENT 01 CONTENT & EDITORIAL VACANCY DS CHAIRMAN POSITION As you may be aware Covid has impacted on 02 AF PENSIONS & TELL US ONCE many Working Members Lives. Likewise, our 03/04 POLITICALLY INCORRECT PAGES Chairman, Colin Watson last year took early 05 JEFF BACON © TWO TIFFS retirement from Toyota, & personal circumstances find 06 RUSSIA IS NO ONE THREAT TO UK him and Isobel planning to 07 SUBMARINE DISMANTLING PROJECT settle in Aberdeenshire. 08 S/M ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENGENCE Thus, Colin as tendered his 09 WHATS NEXT FOR RN VESSELS? resignation from the position as DS Chairman. Thus, we 10 RNR TRAIN ON S/M RESCUE seek a Full Member to fulfil 11 NEWSLETTER FEEDBACK this post of DS Chairman 12 WORLD SUBMARINE NEWS & SUEZ as soon as possible, to be 13-14 NUCLEAR POWER DEVELOPMENTS ratified at AGM 2022. Loosing Colin and Isobel as 15 THE ‘X’ FILES FROM 2004 active participants of DS is a 16 GENERAL NATO & S/M NEWS really sad blow, but we wish 17 RN & MARITIME NEWS AROUND UK them both all the best in their new home and location & we will look forward to their visits to 18 SOVIET SPY FROM 1980’S EXPOSED Derby. The Good News is Colin is not resigning 19 LATEST SITREP ON HMS URGE from DS & has requested to remain a Derbyshire 20 ISRAELI SUBMARINE SERVICE Submariners Member and intends to travel south 21 ROYAL NAVY GENERAL NEWS for the October Trafalgar Dinner and functions in the future and stay in touch with DS. 22 WORLDS FIFTH OCEAN RECOGNISED 23 NOT FORGOTTEN ASSN INVITE We all hope by October this year, that we will all feel confident enough to be able to attend some form of 24 STOP PRESS & DS ROUNDUP Trafalgar Dinner Celebration, and we are open to any suggestions how we can achieve this? Thus, we could run remotely with Colin in Scotland until a new Chairman is appointed, and I believe it would be nice for Colin to Chair the Trafalgar Dinner in October especially as 2020 was a none-event. The precedent of a member who lives outside DS BIRTHDAYS 2021 Derbyshire is covered in our DS Constitution as long as they participate in the group activity’s. 22 July Michael Roberts Colin, has volunteered to continue to ‘Draft Read’ 23 July Max Horton QGM the Monthly Newsletter for me via email, which I am 26 July Ian Worrall really grateful for; unless someone wishes to take over the job locally? A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH Terry Hall WOKE THREE AGES OF MAN The Trade Journal Newsletter Editor Childhood, Middle Age, Hon. Sec/Treasurer, Derbyshire Submariners’ Oh! You are Looking Well! [email protected] 1 WELFARE MATTERS TELL US ONCE SERVICE. Tell Us Once is a service that lets you report a death to most UNCLAIMED SERVICE PENSIONS. If you government organisations in one go. How to use served in the Armed Forces after April 1975, you Tell Us Once A registrar will explain the Tell Us could have an unclaimed pension. AFPS 75 Once service when you register the death. They will pensions earned before April 2005 are payable at either: complete the Tell Us Once service with you & age 60. To claim your preserved pension, go to the give you a unique reference number so you can use Veterans UK website and fill in AFPS Form 8. You the service yourself online or by phone. The registrar will not receive the pension automatically; you will will give you a number to call. This includes a video have to make a claim. You should send the form off relay service for British Sign Language (BSL) users around 6 months before your pension is due. If you and Relay UK if you cannot hear or speak on the have passed the due date, you can still claim using phone. You must use the service within 84 days of the same form. getting your unique reference number. If you cannot Am I owed a pension? Initially, individuals had to register the death because an inquest is underway, serve for five years and be at least age 26 to qualify. you can still ask a registrar for a unique reference From April 1988, qualification period reduced to two number. You’ll need to get an interim death years paid service from age 18 (21 for Officers). certificate from the coroner holding the inquest first. The only veterans who will never receive pensions Before you use Tell Us Once You’ll need the are: Those who left before April 1975 without an following details of the person who died: Date of immediate pension. Those who only served for a birth, National Insurance number, driving licence very short time. Those who transferred their number, Vehicle registration number, Passport preserved pensions out of the AFPS. Those who number, The date they died. You’ll also need: served on gratuity earning terms rather than Details of any benefits or entitlements they were pensionable terms. getting, for example State Pension details of any How much will I get? Your pension will increase local council services they were getting, for example annually with inflation from age 55, and you may be Blue Badge. Name, address, telephone number eligible for a tax-free lump sum when you claim. For and the National Insurance number or DoB of any example: Someone who left service in April 1978 surviving spouse or civil partner & name and with a preserved pension of £800 would now have address of their NoK, If there is no surviving spouse a preserved pension of over £4,000 and a lump sum or civil partner or their spouse or civil partner is not of over £12,000. Someone who left in April 1982 able to deal with their affairs then name, address with a preserved pension of £1,100 would now have and contact details of the person or company a preserved pension of about £3,500 and a dealing with their estate (property, belongings and preserved pension lump sum of almost £10,500. money), known as their ‘executor’ or ‘administrator. For information about preserved pensions, email Details of any public sector or armed forces pension The Forces Pension Society at schemes they were getting or paying in to. You [email protected] or 0800 085 3600. need permission from any surviving spouse or civil partner, the NoK, executor, administrator or anyone PENSION INCREASE May 2021. This year, Armed who was claiming joint benefits or entitlements with Forces Pensions have increased by 0.5%. The the person who died, before you give their details. Pension increase is based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 12-month inflation rate in Sept of the Use Tell Us Once Online. Tell Us Once will notify: preceding year, which was 0.5% in Sept 2020. If HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to deal with you are in receipt of an AFPS pension, you will personal tax and to cancel benefits and credits, (you receive your annual Pensioner Newsletter along need to contact HMRC separately for business with your P60 confirming the increase. If you are taxes, like VAT). DWP to cancel benefits and still serving your pension savings are increased entitlements, for example Universal Credit or State slightly to track inflation. This is known as Pension. Passport Office to cancel a British indexation, and it is based on the Average Weekly passport. DVLA) to cancel a licence, remove the Earnings index and is similar to money in a bank person as the keeper of up to 5 vehicles, The local account earning interest. council to cancel Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction & Blue Badge, inform council housing HELP & SUPPORT. If you have a question about services and remove the person from the electoral your Armed Forces Pension, please call the JPAC register. Veterans UK, to cancel Armed Forces Enquiry Centre on 0800 085 3600 or 0044 141 224 Compensation & Pensions. Tell Us Once will also 3600 if calling from abroad. Open Mon-Frid 7am to contact some public sector pension schemes so 7pm. Please ensure you have your Service and that they cancel future pension payments. There’s National Insurance Numbers ready. You can also a different process to update property records if the find useful information on all the Armed Forces person who died owns land or property. Also, you Pension Schemes by visiting need to contact the person’s bank or mortgage, www.gov.uk/guidance/pensions-and- pension or insurance providers to close or change compensation-for-veterans the details of their accounts. 2 UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT PAGES Bunting Tossers and Stokers Two Buntings Scientists got together to study the effects of alcohol were standing on the foc’sl looking up at the on a person’s walk, and the result was staggering. Jackstaff. A Stoker walked up to them with a toolbox and asked what they were doing. ‘We’re I’m trying to organize a hide and seek tournament, supposed to find the height of the jackstaff’ said but good players are really hard to find. one of the buntings ‘but we don’t have a ladder’. What do you say to comfort a friend who’s The stoker set down his tool box, opened it and struggling with grammar? There, their, they’re. took out a wrench. He loosened a few bolts, and I went to the toy store and asked the assistant laid the jackstaff down on the deck then he took where the Schwarznegger dolls are and he out a tape measure and measured the jackstaff.