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Estimates Changes – information for employers
As you may be aware the charges for providing member estimates has recently changed. The members estimate request form has been updated and is available on our website.
If a member has an up-to-date Total Reward Statement (TRS) / Annual Benefit…
Capacity code reminder
Employers are reminded that when a member with a 03, 08 or 10 capacity code changes from part time to whole time or vice versa, or hours to sessions, the employment must be closed and reopened on Pensions Online (POL) to ensure benefit calculations…
NHS Pension Scheme membership number
All members of the NHS Pension Scheme are given an 8-digit membership number. Members can find their membership number at the top of any letters they’ve received from us.
Older letters may show it like this, ‘SD 00 / 123456’, but this format is…
Changes to the retirement benefits claim form (AW8)
Please note that the retirement benefits claim form (AW8) has recently been updated and a new version is now available on our website. The new version of this form will soon also be available in print.
Re-assessing tiered contribution rates
The general basic rule is that a contribution tier for existing Officers Scheme members is set using the previous years’ pensionable earnings or whole time equivalent for members working part time. This is unless there has been, or there is, a…
Introducing proposed retirement flexibilities
In December the Department of Health and Social Care announced proposals to change the NHS Pension Scheme regulations to enable NHS staff to work flexibly up to and beyond retirement age.
We included details of the DHSC’s proposals in our December…
NHS Pensions Sevice Improvement and Development Board meeting July 2017
Following the introduction of the administration levy on 1 April 2017 which saw the shift of funding the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme from the Department of Health to NHS employers, we changed the…
Calculating whole time equivalent pensionable pay for a part time Officer (or Practice staff) member who receives additional or supplementary payments
The following information updates previous guidance provided in our January 2016 newsletter.
The article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter informed you continue to use your current method of calculating notional whole time pay for part time…
Membership enquiries
The website membership enquiry process will be updated to include Retrospective and Part Time Access (PTA) as well as a few smaller changes with the existing standard membership. The volume of Retrospective and PTA membership enquiries is relatively…
Incorrect forms for membership enquiries
We are still receiving membership enquiries on incorrect forms. Please be reminded of the processes below as advised in the June 2019 newsletter.
The website membership enquiry process has been updated to include Retrospective and Part Time Access…