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If your employees do not have access to Electronic Staff Record (ESR), they may have previously used Gov.UK Verify to access their Annual Benefit Statement (ABS). Gov.UK Verify closed on 30 March 2023. If your employees are actively contributing to…

As the NHSBSA has recently undergone an email migration, the contact details for NHS Pensions Finance Operations teams have changed. For the Employer Accounts Team, please contact us via: Telephone: 01912671440 Email: pensions.finance@nhsbsa.nhs.uk…

The NHSBSA is currently in the process of transforming the pensioner payroll and administration.  To allow for the critical upgrade of our systems and the migration of data from existing systems there will be some system downtime coming up and we…

A number of cases have come to light whereby a member has been offered a career break immediately following sick leave. Career breaks should not be used instead of sick leave, or to prevent the member accruing disallowed days. Where a member has…

In May we had an exhibition stand at the Royal College of Nursing Congress Exhibition 2019, held in Liverpool. We were overwhelmed with the interest we received during the three days. All in all, we engaged with around 400 members of the NHS Pension…

Although Equitable Life closed to new business in 2001, the NHS AVC Scheme with Equitable Life remained open because it was established before the closure. As a result, members of the NHS Pension Scheme who had previously paid contributions to…

Following the release of Total Reward Statements (TRS) and annual benefit statements (ABS), NHS Pensions has received enquiries regarding the retirement age for Special Class transitional members showing as age 60.  If a member held Special Class…

The NHS Pensions Finance team is now using a paperless system for processing claims for re-imbursement of initial widow/widowers pensions (IWP). Therefore, we now require the form to be sent in a PDF format for audit purposes with a view to…

In December 2019, the Welsh Government announced that clinical staff who go over their annual allowance for the 2019/20 tax year and who use scheme pays to pay the tax charge can be compensated in retirement for any reduction to their NHS Pension…

The Stakeholder Engagement Team are hosting a virtual training event via Microsoft Teams for all NHS trust employers on 3 February 2022. The trust event will be held in the morning and the afternoon on Thursday 3 February 2022. Morning session…