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NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) has published more information on the steps it has taken to address the impact of the annual allowance taper for the 2019/20 financial year, including the actions that eligible clinicians and employers now…

The NHS Pensions Finance team is now processing Initial Widow Pension (IWP) claims paperless and therefore require the FIN9 claim form in a PDF format for audit purposes and with a view to eliminating fraud.   Please send the FIN9 claim form via…

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…

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…

The Court of Appeal ruling on 'protection', known as the McCloud Judgment In April 2015, the government put into effect reforms to all main public service pension schemes. The reforms that took place in 2015 did not apply to those closest to…

NHS Pensions has added two new Stakeholder GP events in London later this year. If you are interested in attending the next round of free training sessions they will be split into two different levels, level 1 and level 2 which will take place on…

A reminder that applications for reassessments of final pay control charges issued before 1 July 2021 closed in December 2021. All final pay control changes calculated on or after 1 July 2021 already take into account the revised Consumer Price…

On 1 July 2021 the final pay control rules changed. These changes were applied retrospectively from the 1 April 2018 and employers were able to apply for final pay control charge invoices received or paid between 1 April 2018 and 1 July 2021 to be…

We have become aware that organisations have been asked to review the email addresses they use, with some organisations changing this to a non nhs.net/ nhs.uk email account. If you have amended your email address, then you will need to notify NHS…

The Foundation Course has been developed following feedback from our GP practice manager employer training events. This course is available to all new local administrators of the NHS Pension Scheme who are less than 12 months in post and provides…