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The Employer Newsletter is automatically sent to the email address we hold on record for the main pensions contact at each organisation. Therefore it is important that contact details are kept up to date. The contact details we hold for your…

Pension Admin only require re-employment forms in the following circumstances: a member is in receipt of ill-health benefits and has become re-employed a member is re-employed in receipt of the interests of efficiency of the service and has…

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we temporarily removed the 10-week rule for GP locums from 1 April 2022. The rule states that GP locums cannot pension work that is over 10 weeks old We will be reinstating the rule from 1 October 2022. …

If there are more than 10 members in a redundancy exercise, we ask Employers to contact the Stakeholder Engagement Team stakeholderengagement@nhsbsa.nhs.uk to start the process as soon as possible. You will be provided with a spreadsheet to…

The stakeholder engagement team run a series of events throughout the year providing regular updates and delivering educational training. Please see our Pension Events Calendar for upcoming events. If your organisation would like to request…

At the start of the COVID 19 outbreak we took a number of steps to support employers who were encountering issues due to the lockdown restrictions. This included agreeing to accept certain applications forms in PDF/Word format via email, instead of…

During COVID-19 we have introduced a number of measures and easements to support employers at this time. One of these was a new email account for employers to send certain forms to where other methods are no longer suitable. Recently the team…

We’ve updated the guide to reflect this change, and it is available on the Pensions Online (POL) page of the Employer hub (number 27 - NHS Pensions Online AW8 - Retirement benefits claim form).   When you submit an application, there will be the…

The members’ record should be terminated on either the date of death, or if annual leave extends the last day of service on that date using exit code 14. Please also ensure the employer pay provided on the termination form includes payment for…

We have noticed an increase in the number of requests from employers received on behalf of the members, to change the decision in relation to their lump sum choice when completing the retirement application form AW8. We are therefore asking…