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All employing authorities (EAs) are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis. Our Data Management Team will send the prepopulated spreadsheet to the main EA contact during the week commencing 15 March 2021.…

We would like to remind all employers that the deadline for submitting year end updates has now passed. Failure to submit year end data can result in penalties imposed by HMRC for each member where the data is outstanding.  The timely submission of…

Sharing Our Performance - March 2019 Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. As of 26 March, a total of 3852 applications have been processed, 97.49% of which were paid…

First Awards A total of 3751 applications have been processed so far in May of which 96.91% were paid on time. Bereavements Bereavements is progressing through recovery and reaching some stability. A number of activities are on-going to…

To qualify for a refund, a member must:    have left the scheme before reaching Normal Pension Age   have ceased membership of the Scheme in all employments   have less than two years qualifying membership in the 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%…

Employers are reminded that a final pay control charge applies where a NHS Pension Scheme Officer or Practice Staff member with 1995 Section membership (including 1995/2015 transition members) has a pensionable pay increase which exceeds an…

Over the holiday period, the NHSBSA Pensions Finance office will be closed on the following dates: Wednesday 25 December Thursday 26 December Friday 27 December Wednesday 1 January Please note, we will not be collecting Pension Contributions…

The table below shows our recent monthly performance for pension award processing: The graph above depicts the improvement we are making in our aim to pay the Pension…

It’s been a few months since we introduced the final system changes to automate the AW171 process. You now no longer need to send us the AW171 form to trigger a review of the pension in payment and determine whether a revised pension is appropriate…