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GP Practice Events
Our second round of employer events is now well underway having visited Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton and Exeter. We have put together this round of events based on feedback previously received and we are delighted to continue to receive positive…
Sharing our performance - April 2019
Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. A total of 3236 applications have been processed so far in April 2019 of which 96.48% were paid on time and of those 82.62% lump…
Clarification on annual allowance statements
We would like to clarify our current position in regards to providing annual allowance pension savings statements.
Recently we have issued annual allowance statements through our automation process, meeting the legislative deadline of 6 October…
Pensions Online – Error Handling
Last month we advised that from 1 August 2020, NHS Pensions will no longer deal with comments submitted through POL error handling.
Where you can provide relevant information for resolving an error, you should now email nhsbsa.nwdatamanagement@nhs…
Employer guidance on sending forms to NHS Pensions
At the start of the COVID 19 outbreak we took a number of steps to support employers who were encountering issues due to the lockdown restrictions. This included agreeing to accept certain applications forms in PDF/Word format via email, instead of…
Employer queries on member contribution changes
Following our recent Pay and Contributions Event organised by the Stakeholder Engagement Team and a number of queries raised about the member contributions introduced on 1 October, we have compiled information on the most common queries in this…
Introduction of retire and re-join for 1995 Section
Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations have been introduced from 1 April 2023. These allow members who have retired with 1995 Section benefits the option to re-join the NHS Pension Scheme if they return to work.
What this means for the…
Non-receipt of essential member data
We are in the process of conducting a review due to non-receipt of essential member data, in particular year end updates.
We will work closely with employers during this exercise and there will be an initial contact with the Finance Director or…
ESR Pensions Event
You are invited to attend a virtual ESR Pensions event hosted jointly with NHS Pensions on 24 May 2022.
The event will run from 10am to 12pm, with a one hour lunch break followed by the afternoon session from 1pm to 3pm.
Throughout the day we will…
Important information for members who have recently received an annual allowance statement
We have become aware of an error that may have affected some pension savings statements dated between 20 April and 27 April 2022. These statements were issued on 28 April 2022.
As a precaution we are recalculating and issuing new statements to all…