Right now, we have a backlog of around 12,000 applications.
Again, it is instructive to have a look at how that 12,000 number is broken down. Fully 83% of those applications refer to people who are still in service today and not yet in a position to receive a pension. That does not in any way diminish the fact that they need to have information in place to enable them to make informed decisions about a buyback. So that's an acknowledged challenge going forward, to make sure that we can provide them the information in a timely manner to make informed decisions.
Of the remaining 17% of the 12,000 files—amounting to almost 2,000 files—for the people who are retired or are retiring, 56% or just over 1,100 have already been processed. The other 871 files in question are in various stages of audit evaluation and final checking for us to be able to present the pension cheques in question.
I don't diminish the challenge in front of us, but it is instructive to put into context that 83% of those files are for people who are still serving today.