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Closure of Practice Payments email account
The email account nhsbsa.practicepayments@nhs.net currently used by GP practices will be closing with effect from Monday 2 December 2019.
Emails sent to nhsbsa.practicepayments@nhs.net after 2 December 2019 will not be forwarded and the account…
Make Contribution Payments update
Employers using MCP to submit their pension contribution information can now view their contribution history within the service. This will show you the details of what was submitted and who in your organisation made the submission.
Remember, if you…
Ill Health Applications – Missing Information
NHS Pensions is continuing to receive these applications forms:
The Consideration of Entitlement to Ill Health Retirement benefits (AW33E)
The Consideration of Entitlement for Early Payment of Deferred Benefits due to Ill Health (AW240) …
Changes to how you can submit a scheme pays election if you are about to retire
If you have an annual allowance charge you can either pay the charge directly to HMRC yourself or share the responsibility for the payment with the NHS Pension Scheme using the scheme pays facility.
This is known as a scheme pays election. The NHS…
Additional pension
Additional pension allows you to buy extra annual pension if you're an active member of the 2015 NHS Pension Scheme. All active members moved to the 2015 Scheme from 1 April 2022 as part of the public service pensions remedy, also known as McCloud…
Tax implications
Contributions paid to increase benefits qualify for full tax relief. They cannot exceed 100% of your taxable pay.
Lifetime Allowance
Since 6 April 2006 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has set a Lifetime Allowance limit. This is on tax free pension…
Annual Check – Scheme Access
From 1 April 2019 the Scheme Access Team has introduced an annual check, at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care. The check is to ensure that the access granted to all non-automatic Employing Authorities is still relevant, and is…
Pensions on Line (POL) Memberzone - data cleanse and exclusions
Data Management are receiving a high number of e-mails regarding cases where an estimate or membership statement cannot be produced through Memberzone as the member’s record requires data cleanse or a calculation is not possible due to system…
Pensions Online – Error Handling
Pensions Online (POL) error handling has a facility for employers to submit a comment on an error, to the NHS Pensions Data Management Teams. Employers are asked to submit comments where additional information can be provided to enable NHS Pensions…
Technical guidance
Information you need to administer the NHS Pension Scheme on behalf of your members.
For a broad overview of the administrative tasks you need to perform, read our quick start guide (Word: 904KB).
It's aimed at employers who have recently been…