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Contacting Pensions via Email
To prevent double handling and potential delays with your email queries, please only send each query to the one relevant email account.
It is not necessary to copy in other teams as all correspondence that is sent to the pension employer account…
GP Practice Manager training for Jan-April 2024
Further dates are available for the Level 1 and Level 2 GP practice manager events, which include educational training tailored for practice managers, delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams.
Practice managers need to attend the whole training…
Special Class status (SCS) – Retention of SCS for Managers
A number of cases have recently been identified where employers have incorrectly recorded individual managers as having automatic entitlement to SCS (i.e. Capacity Code = 01, Nurse with Special Class status when the Capacity Code should be 04 –…
Introduction of retire and re-join for 1995 Section
Changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations have been introduced from 1 April 2023. These allow members who have retired with 1995 Section benefits the option to re-join the NHS Pension Scheme if they return to work.
What this means for the…
New ill health resources for members and employers
Having recently reviewed our ill health retirement processes, we have published a number of new resources to help support members applying for ill health retirement benefits.
These include:
a new dedicated ill health retirement benefits…
Pensions Online (POL) downtime for December 2023 and January 2024
POL will be available throughout December and January between 7am and 7pm apart from the following dates when there will be downtime for scheduled system maintenance:
Sunday 24 December
Sunday 7 January
Saturday 13 January…
Sharing our performance - October/November
Our current performance
The table below shows our recent monthly performance for pension award processing:
Month
Number of awards due to be paid in month (our target)
Number of awards cleared within the month (…
Reduction or forfeiture of NHS Pension Scheme benefits and using the ‘02’ exit code
The NHS Pension Scheme Regulations allow for NHS pension benefits to be reduced or forfeited under certain circumstances.
Reduction of NHS pension benefits
Employing Authorities should make NHS Pensions aware of any legal proceedings in respect…
TRS Refresh 2020
The TRS data cut for the annual refresh will take place after 7pm on Friday 19 June 2020, with refreshed statements available by the end of August 2020.
The data cut will capture successfully updated records up to and including 31 March 2020.…
Additional GP Practice Manager Events - Level 2
The NHS Pensions Stakeholder Engagement Team are delivering Level 2 GP Practice Manager Events commencing in October and November, presenting educational training tailored for Practice Managers. These events will be delivered virtually via Microsoft…