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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…

The Stakeholder Engagement Team has created a number of new guides and resources from your feedback which you can find on our website. User guides New ill health guide New employer organisation contact details form Learning video New ‘…

Following a short consultation, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced an extension to retire and return easements to 31 October 2022 through temporary amendments to NHS Pension Scheme regulations. What was included in the…

Some employing authorities (EA) have reported receiving a ‘500 – internal server error’ when submitting a SD55/AW8 through Pension Online. This has been investigated and access to POL is not being started from the initial homepage, but through a…

We are receiving an increasing number of enquiries to our contact centre from members who are planning to retire and believe they have submitted their application a number of months ago, but we haven’t yet received their AW8. In all cases, AW8…

We are currently experiencing some intermittent issues with Pensions Online (POL). We continue to work to resolve this and apologise for any inconvenience it is causing you. We’ll share further updates as these become available. POL will be…

The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a consultation on proposals to amend the NHS Pension Scheme rules to help retain more experienced NHS clinicians and remove barriers to staff returning to work following retirement. What is…

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…

Following a change to the discount rate used for public service pension schemes that HM Treasury announced on 30 March 2023, the factors used to calculate transfer values for non-Club transfers and pensions on divorce changed. We are now able to…

POL will be available throughout August between 7am and 7pm apart from the following dates when there will be downtime for scheduled system maintenance: Sunday 20 August If we do need to bring POL down at short notice for urgent maintenance, we…