There is no refuse collectors pot in the first place. Individuals do not have "pots" in the LGPS. All this is talking about is going from having 86 funds across the country to 6 - which already started years ago and is now just being accelerated. IE in Coventry, the city council are part of the...
No worries. WMPF should give you some forms to complete and you will need to get Pensions Bee to do it as well. Pensions Bee will try and claim that you don't need to fill out anything with them but they're full of shit
LGPS pensions work differently to normal pensions. When you say it only had a couple of hundred quid in it - it might be that's your annual pension and the actual value of the pension will be a couple of grand