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Both Officer pension statement and Practitioner pension statement show your standard benefits. Standard benefits are an estimate based on the latest known information to show what your pension may be worth at this time. If you want to take…

Information about how your pay is used to calculate your benefits. Officer pension statement In the 1995/2008 Scheme, we calculate your benefits for the NHS Pensions Scheme: using your ‘final year’s pensionable pay’ for the 1995 Section…

A new data privacy law will be introduced in the UK in May 2018. As a result, we’ve published a new privacy notice to make it easier for patients to find out how the NHS Business Services Authority uses and protects their prescription information.…

Annual refresh                                     Following the TRS Pensions data cut on the 22 June, the pension calculations have now been completed and passed across to our ESR colleagues to create the new statements. In accordance with the…

A number of cases have come to light whereby a member has been offered a career break immediately following sick leave. Career breaks should not be used instead of sick leave, or to prevent the member accruing disallowed days. Where a member has…

We will only accept a third party signature on benefit application forms such as, Part B of  form AW33E, the retirement benefits application form AW8 and application to commute ill health retirement benefits form AW341, where the member has…

 NHS Pensions is continuing to receive applications for; 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)  Due to the…

Following the release of Total Reward Statements (TRS) and annual benefit statements (ABS), NHS Pensions has received enquiries regarding the retirement age for Special Class transitional members showing as age 60.  If a member held Special Class…

Employers are reminded of the importance of using the correct termination code when closing down a pension record normally from the beginning of the next pay period. Exit code 16 should be used for all cases where the member continues to work but…

We have noticed an increase in the number of requests from employers received on behalf of the members, to change the decision in relation to their lump sum choice when completing the retirement application form AW8. We are therefore asking…