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Pensions Online downtime
Pensions Online (POL) will be unavailable between the following times:
7pm on Friday 13 October and 7am Monday 16 October
7pm on Friday 27 October and 7am Monday 30 October
Please note: at times we may need to take POL offline at short notice…
Important information when completing form AW8 (pension application form) online
Please be careful when completing an AW8 pension application online. If the member has left pensionable membership and is claiming benefits immediately, the payable date should be the day after the members last day of employment and not their date…
Pensions Online downtime
Pensions Online (POL) will be unavailable between the following times:
7pm on Friday 3 November and 7am Monday 6 November
7pm on Friday 10 November and 7am Monday 13 November
Please note: at times we may need to take POL offline at short…
Submission of paper retirement benefit claim forms (AW8)
We are currently receiving a number of paper retirement benefit claim forms (AW8) for employers that do not have access to Pensions Online. However we are unable to process a large proportion of these due to the members’ records still being active…
Equitable Life Money Purchase Additional Voluntary Contributions (MPAVCs) – Change of bank details
In Employer Newsletter 2 – February 2017 we advised that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had changed the bank account for the payment of contributions for members of the NHS Money Purchase Additional Voluntary Contribution (MPAVC) scheme with…
Fax number no longer in use
With immediate affect the fax machine number (01253 774452) advertised on the Pensions Online (POL) registration form will no longer be available. In line with GDPR this is not a secure route to sending us information and as such it has been…
Change of contributions and pay – form SM8
For officers and practice staff only
When a member works part time in either an hourly or sessional contract and the annual update or termination details show actual part time hours or sessions worked that are in excess…
ESR year-end updates 2020
The 2020 ESR year-end data processing is now complete with a total of 1,469,254 annual updates being applied over the last five weeks. Over the last couple of weeks we have spent time catching up on April joiners and leavers and May joiners to bring…
Changes to contact details within your organisation
It is the responsibility of employers as the local administrators of the NHS Pensions Scheme to inform NHS Pensions of any contact detail changes within your organisation.
Where details change, the appropriate form needs to be completed and…
Automated AW171s effective early 2021
As part of the Sub Award Project, we have looked at how we can simplify and improve the process for employers. We have recognised that we can easily identify when a change on a member record has occurred either through Pensions Online (POL) or via…