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Many thanks for those employers who have returned their Year End Spreadsheets for 2019/20 prior to the regulatory deadline on 31 May 2020. We continue to process these spreadsheets and endeavour to complete our processing in time for the August…

We can now confirm that the Greenbury 2021 window will open on 4 January 2021 from 9am. Pensions online (POL) will be unavailable between 7am – 9am on the morning of the 4 January to allow for the Greenbury refresh from the previous year to take…

When an employee is leaving or if they die in service with outstanding annual leave to be paid, this is classed as pensionable service. The pension leaving date should reflect the date that the annual leave is paid up to.  In ESR this should be…

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…

As per the last pensions update explaining the removal of the paper AW171, we wanted to confirm the process for non-POL employers requesting changes to information. Instead of sending in the AW171, all non-POL employers will now need to submit the…

We would like to remind all employers that the deadline for submitting year end updates has now passed. Failure to submit year end data can result in penalties imposed by HMRC for each member where the data is outstanding.  The timely submission of…

We anticipate that the Greenbury functionality within Pensions Online (POL) will be available from Tuesday 4 January 2022. Requests for disclosure information should be received by NHS Pensions between 4 January 2022 and 28 February 2022 to enable…

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…

The process of the mid-year refresh has started and member details up to 8 October will be used for the refreshed statements.  Any amendments to member details from 9 October will be included in the annual refresh in 2022. We expect the mid-year…

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…