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Following feedback from both our members and employers, we have made the decision that a member will qualify for a protection of pay estimate free of charge if they: are over minimum pension age intend to retire within the next 12 months. The…

Following the removal of the historic Employer Newsletters from the website, the bulk Protection of Pay forms have been updated. The employer factsheet has been updated with a historic bulk Protection of Pay guidance section to include information…

We are starting to receive a few queries from employers about how we collect and share data, and how this may change or have an impact on the data you hold. Our GDPR project is currently looking at our processes and data requirements. We will keep…

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…

Our member facing forms have now been updated with our new privacy statement (shown on the forms as ‘How we use your information’). The latest versions are now available on our website. Some forms may also have had changes made to their…

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a consultation on proposed changes to the member contribution rates for the NHS Pension Scheme. New structure for member contributions This new member contribution structure will contain new…

Following feedback from our non-POL (Pensions Online) users, we have amended the leaver spreadsheet to enable more information to be provided when a member leaves the organisation. The information that can now be included are changes to the…

We advised in a previous newsletters that employers are no longer required to send the paper SD502 opt out form to NHS Pensions and we have amended the form to include this advice. Instead, it is the employer’s responsibility to retain the form in…

From 1 October 2022 changes are being made to the contribution tiers and rates for members. As a consequence of these changes being implemented mid-year, it is necessary for Pensions Online (POL) to display both sets of contribution rates. The rates…

As a follow up to the contribution changes, the Stakeholder Engagement Team will be hosting events throughout December to provide an overview of member contributions and pensionable pay for NHS Trusts, GP Practices and Direction Bodies. All…