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NHS Pension Scheme regulations changing for part-time NHS staff
Last month, we let you know that all NHS employers need to act now to make sure staff don’t miss out on pension benefits.
On 1 April 2025, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) made a retrospective change to the NHS Pension Scheme…
An update from the Data Management team
Our Data Management team have provided the following updates for employers.
Duplication of Data
A high volume of data is being submitted onto the system when the original input has gone into error.
If the data has already been submitted either…
Reduction or forfeiture of NHS Pension Scheme benefits and using the ‘02’ exit code
The NHS Pension Scheme Regulations allow for NHS pension benefits to be reduced or forfeited under certain circumstances.
Reduction of NHS pension benefits
Employing Authorities should make NHS Pensions aware of any legal proceedings in respect…
Contacting the NHSBSA Pensions Operational Finance Team
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, we are experiencing some delays in responding to your emails.
Please be assured that Pensions Operational Finance are working extremely hard to make sure that we respond to all queries as quickly as possible…
NHS and Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme 2020 rule changes
Probate
On 18 November 2021 an updated version of the scheme rules was published which includes an amendment to Part 4 (paragraph 6). This allows claimants who are unable to obtain probate to receive benefits from the scheme. Some claimants may be…
Pensions revaluation headline statement – DHSC
The NHS Pension Scheme employer contribution rate increased on the 1 April 2019 from 14.3% to 20.6% plus the employer levy of 0.08%.
The Department of Health and Social Care’s consultation response announcing the rise, published in March 2019,…
Contacting Pensions via Email
To prevent double handling and potential delays with your email queries, please only send each query to the one relevant email account.
It is not necessary to copy in other teams as all correspondence that is sent to the pension employer account…
VAT Treatment of charges from NHS Pension Scheme
Since 1 April 2017 NHS Pension Scheme Employing Authorities have been paying a levy to cover the cost of the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme. The levy has been collected along with employers contributions by increasing the rate from 14.30%…
Disclosure of senior managers’ remuneration – Greenbury 2024
We anticipate that the Greenbury functionality within Pensions Online (POL) will be available from Monday 15 January 2024. This is slightly later than last year as we found we were receiving initial requests early and then amended pay figures at a…
Pensions Employers & Stakeholder Engagement Email Accounts
In order to prevent double handling and potential delays, please only direct each query into the one relevant account. Please do not send emails to multiple accounts.
nhsbsa.pensionsemployers@nhs.net
All general employer queries and case…