I’m hopeful some wise person can help me here. I appear to be trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare of nonsensical bureaucracy.
I have filed an application for divorce. My STBEXH and I are in complete agreement that everything, including pensions, will be split 50:50. It’s been a very long marriage. I’m currently getting a modest NHS pension, which is obviously in payment, and this needs to go onto Form E as part of my assets. For this, I need the CETV (or do I mean CEBV); anyway, the numerical value of the fund. I have applied using the relevant form, and paid the (enormous) fee.
Everything else is complete on Form E and ready to go.
I have been told by NHS BSA that although usually it takes three calendar months to supply the fund value for the purposes of divorce (why????) it is currently taking much, much longer. The nice young man on the end of the phone wouldn’t commit to an exact timeframe, but it could be a year.
It feels like my easy little question is in the same queue as all the requests for calculations of retirement benefits, for people who are wanting to retire. Have I submitted it to the wrong place? It simply cannot take this long. For comparison, getting the equivalent figure from my Virgin private pension took around five seconds, and I am not exaggerating.
I really hope someone can advise. I feel like either I, or the NHS pension system, has gone insane.
Thank you so much to anyone who has read to the end!