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The payment industry has recently introduced Confirmation of Payee (CoP) which lets payers check the name of who they are paying before they pay them. Banks check the name of the person or organisation given by the payer, against the actual name…

Further to an article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter, we are continuing to consider the system changes required to ensure that the whole time equivalent pay is calculated correctly for part time staff who are in receipt of supplementary…

Following feedback from both our members and employers, we have made the decision that a member will qualify for a protection of pay estimate free of charge if they: are over minimum pension age intend to retire within the next 12 months. The…

Following the removal of the historic Employer Newsletters from the website, the bulk Protection of Pay forms have been updated. The employer factsheet has been updated with a historic bulk Protection of Pay guidance section to include information…

We have recently received a number of queries in relation to clinical director duty payments. The regulations state that a member’s pensionable earnings are: salary wages fees, and other regular payments made to the member in respect of…

We do not include a projection of your pension at retirement as part of your statement.  NHS pension benefits for membership after 2015 are also subject to change. In 2015, the government made changes to most public service pension schemes,…

The NHS Business Services Authority is sympathetic to the situation that NHS staff currently find themselves in during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and is keen to support members of the NHS Pension Scheme (England and Wales) who are front…

The aim of the final pay control regulations in the 1995 Section of the NHS Pension Scheme is to protect the NHS Pension Scheme against the costs of excessive increases in pensionable pay at or before retirement. Employers are charged if they give…

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published the outcome of its consultation on proposed amendments to the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations. It confirms the changes that will be made to final pay controls from 1 July 2021 The aim of…

On 22 May 2025, the Secretary of State announced that the headline pay recommendations for NHS staff from the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB), the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Remuneration (DDRB) and the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) have…