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My personal position on payments to EC members (13 years not out in my case) and office bearers (five years in the chair) is to resist it on the grounds that it could be taken as creating a master/servant relationship — which some people see as existing anyway, but that’s another story. If I had been asked to nominate a gift on stepping down, I would have said a black cartridge for my printer and a ream or two of A4 to make up partly for my unheralded donations to the affairs of the scheme, but I was happy, and touched, to receive a gift card. No-one should be out of pocket as a result of contributing to the protection of perhaps the biggest single component of their personal wealth, but on the other hand they should not be looking to enrich themselves.