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Please remember that if you outsource your pensions activity to a third party provider, it is your responsibility for ensuring the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme is: a) carried out in a timely manner and is in line with the Scheme…

We would like to provisionally inform you that Pensions Online (POL) will be unavailable from 7pm on Thursday 15 March to 7am Tuesday 20 March. This is so we can carry out testing on the new IT infrastructure that will support the transformation of…

As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 situation, we are currently receiving a high volume of calls to our NHS Pensions Employer Helpline. Please do take a look at the dedicated resources and guidance for employers within our NHS Pensions employer hub…

The NHS Pensions Finance team is now processing Initial Widow Pension (IWP) claims paperless and therefore require the FIN9 claim form in a PDF format for audit purposes and with a view to eliminating fraud.   Please send the FIN9 claim form via…

When an employee is leaving or if they die in service with outstanding annual leave to be paid, this is classed as pensionable service. The pension leaving date should reflect the date that the annual leave is paid up to.  In ESR this should be…

As per the last pensions update explaining the removal of the paper AW171, we wanted to confirm the process for non-POL employers requesting changes to information. Instead of sending in the AW171, all non-POL employers will now need to submit the…

The Court of Appeal ruling on 'protection', known as the McCloud Judgment In April 2015, the government put into effect reforms to all main public service pension schemes. The reforms that took place in 2015 did not apply to those closest to…

NHS Pensions has added two new Stakeholder GP events in London later this year. If you are interested in attending the next round of free training sessions they will be split into two different levels, level 1 and level 2 which will take place on…

We are continuing to experience delays in the payment of first awards.  We have now completed the forecast recovery for Awards and plan to manage the workload from different points going forward. We are currently anticipating recovery by the end of…

We have become aware that organisations have been asked to review the email addresses they use, with some organisations changing this to a non nhs.net/ nhs.uk email account. If you have amended your email address, then you will need to notify NHS…