Flexible Service, effective from 01 April 2019, allows Regular service personnel to:

• Seek temporary and defined periods of part-time work (a reduction of 20% or 40%); and/or
• To restrict their separation (lower rate of X-Factor).

Periods of flexible service will have an impact on pension benefits.

Time Periods

• The minimum period you can select is three months (unless you are entering a previous period of flexible service that was suspended or ended, creating an overall duration of less than three months); and
• A maximum of 3 years.

A detailed article on flexible service in the UK Armed Forces will be published in the near future.