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Following a short consultation, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced an extension to retire and return easements to 31 October 2022 through temporary amendments to NHS Pension Scheme regulations. What was included in the…

Our current performance  The table below shows our recent monthly performance for pension award processing: Month Number of awards due to be paid in month (our target) Number of awards cleared within the month (…

Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. A total of 3236 applications have been processed so far in April 2019 of which 96.48% were paid on time and of those 82.62% lump…

In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have taken, and continue to take, proactive steps to ensure we support members, employers and colleagues. As we implemented social distancing in the workplace and set up colleagues to…

Last month we advised that from 1 August 2020, NHS Pensions will no longer deal with comments submitted through POL error handling.  Where you can provide relevant information for resolving an error, you should now email nhsbsa.nwdatamanagement@nhs…

Employer contribution rate arrangements to remain for 2020/21 The NHS Pension Scheme employer contribution rate increased on 1 April 2019 from 14.38% to 20.68%. The Department of Health and Social Care’s consultation response announcing the rise,…

Sign up to our LIVE event on Tuesday 23 April 1pm to 2:30pm on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/855896468377?aff=oddtdtcreator     This event is for employers that only have access to POL.    We will:   show you how to complete the…

A number of cases have recently been identified where employers have incorrectly recorded individual managers as having automatic entitlement to SCS (i.e. Capacity Code = 01, Nurse with Special Class status when the Capacity Code should be 04 –…

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…

Month Number of new awards due to be paid in month (our target) Number of new awards cleared within the month (our performance) Completion rate June 2018 2936 2198…