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Administration Foundation Courses for January - March 2024
This course is available to all new local administrators of the NHS Pension Scheme who are less than 12 months in post. It provides an overview of what is expected of you as an NHS Pension Scheme administrator throughout a Scheme year.
At the end…
Searching for Pension Forms
Please note that when you are searching for a Pensions form online, you need to search and access forms via the NHSBSA website to ensure you are finding the correct and most recent versions of the form you are searching for. Please avoid using…
Price Change for Additional Pension Payment and ERRBO
Following a change to the discount rate used for public service pension schemes that HM Treasury announced on 30 March 2023, the prices used to calculate Additional Pension purchases have changed. These will be implemented from 1 April 2024. All…
Submitting a joiner form (SS10) (Non ESR employers)
Non ESR employers are not required to submit a ‘Joining or rejoining the NHS Pension Scheme (SS10)’ form for NHS staff that opt out of the Scheme within the first calendar month, providing they have completed the application to leave the NHS Pension…
2017 Year end updates
The deadline for supplying your year end information (for Officer and Practice staff members) has now passed. If you did not supply the information by 31 May, either via Pensions Online or by completing the spreadsheet that was emailed to you, your…
Clarity around protection of pay estimates
Following the Employer Newsletter article about protection of pay estimates published in June, we have provided the below guidelines:
Upon request we will provide a ‘most beneficial’ Age estimate, including protection of pay/multiple breaks, for…
HMRC's Lifetime Allowance protection look up service
HMRC have published a look up service that allows scheme administrators to check the status of a Lifetime Allowance protection certificate.
However, the look up service does not give all the necessary confirmation to allow NHS Pensions to calculate…
Data update for non Pensions Online organisations
Invitations for non Pensions Online (POL) users year end update training events have now been sent. If you haven’t received your invitation via email and would like to attend, please email nhsbsa.stakeholderengagement@nhs.net as soon as possible.…
Submitting a retirement benefits claim form (AW8) on Pensions Online (POL)
Since changes to Pensions Online (POL) were implemented in September, we have received a large number of AW8s that have been submitted with either incorrect payable dates or incorrect reasons for retirement. We have also received applications that…
Employer Newsletter distribution list
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…