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Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients

These statistics present summary information on the number and location of recipients of an Armed Forces pension and/or compensation.

From:
Ministry of Defence
Published
20 October 2016
Last updated
2 January 2024 — See all updates

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Reference to pension and compensation recipients in this report refers to:

Pension recipients:

UK armed forces veterans in receipt of an occupational pension under one of the following Armed Forces Pension Scheme (AFPS): AFPS 75 or APFS 05. This report does not include those in receipt of AFPS 15.

War Pension Scheme (WPS) recipients:

UK veterans, war widow(er)s and other pensioners in receipt of compensation for injury, ill health and death as a result of service in the UK armed forces prior to 6 April 2005.

Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) recipients:

UK veterans and serving personnel who have been awarded compensation for injury and ill health as a result of service in the UK armed forces on or after 6 April 2005. This report does not currently include dependants awarded compensation under the AFCS for service-attributable death.

Editions

Published 20 October 2016
Last updated 2 January 2024 + show all updates

  1. Added information on the consultation being run on the proposed cessation of this statistic.

  2. Added: Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2023.

  3. Added Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2022.

  4. Addition of: location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients for 2021.

  5. Added: Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2020.

  6. Updated the collection page to give a better breakdown of the statistics listed and added the Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2019 page.

  7. Added the Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients 2018 statistics page.

  8. Added link to Location of armed forces pension and compensation recipients: 2017.

  9. First published.