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<p>To be eligible for the Gurkha Offer to Transfer (GOTT) in 2007/8, a Gurkha had
to have served in the Army on or after 1 July 1997.</p><p>The service credits applied
under the GOTT to service pre-July 1997 were based on actuarial assumptions calculated
by the Government Actuary's Department and accepted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
This is normal practice across the public services for those transferring between
pension schemes.</p><p>The assumptions took into account differences in benefit structures
between the Gurkha Pension Scheme and the Armed Forces Pension Scheme, including age
on joining, length of service and mortality rates.</p><p>Legal challenges to the terms
of the GOTT, up to the European Court of Human Rights, were rejected, with MOD's view
that the transfer terms were fair and reasonable being upheld.</p><p>No pension value
was removed from any Gurkha as a result of the GOTT.</p>
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