Civil Service pension - buying added pension

[OldAgeBeckons]

Hello

Looking at the CS pension site and I'm confused.
In the Alpha scheme the stated maximum of Added Pension is £9,200.
So does that mean I can pay in a maximum of £766 pm?
I've downloaded the calculator but I seem to be able to put in higher figures before it fails the 'limit check'.
It's very confusing.
Can anyone help?

The maximum is basically forever not each year and it would cost you a fortune to get near it. Added pension is also pretty expensive so you need to run the numbers to see if it is worth it compared to putting it in a SIPP- the older you see the more worth it.

You can see it more if you put a lump sum into the calculator. It would cost you £100k to get to the 9.2k limit- which you can’t do as it would be over the limit.

I assume you’ve done £9,200 / 12 to get to your £766. That’s not how it works. Don’t forget that the extra you are buying is an amount you’d get paid every year until death. I’d expect £1,000 of extra pension to cost ~£15-20k

Thank you both.
I sorted it out while playing around with the calculators.

The modeller has been missing from my portal for a while now! It was there before... does everyone has it there still? Thanks

The modeller is back but is giving very different estimates for early retirement than it provided before - there are a few threads about it on the moneysupermarket.com forum pages. I’m only a few years off (I’d hoped) and am really concerned that the plans I made aren’t based on accurate information.