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Have you seen our new videos?
Further to our update last month we can confirm that the following videos have gone live:
Family and your pension
Retire and return
Retire and return after ill health retirement
The videos are intended to provide a high level overview of…
Pensions Online downtime
Pensions Online (POL) will be unavailable between the following times:
7pm on Friday 3 November and 7am Monday 6 November
7pm on Friday 10 November and 7am Monday 13 November
Please note: at times we may need to take POL offline at short…
Adjustment in respect of category M price reduction from August 2017
The adjustment will use the Category M prices listed in the July 2017 NHS Drug Tariff as a baseline.
Where individual items were given a price concession in the July NHS Drug Tariff by way of a Drug Tariff amendment, the baseline price to be used…
Discontinued Special Order products
The following Special Order products have all been discontinued:
Hydromorphone 10mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules (Special Order)
Hydromorphone 20mg/1ml solution for injection ampoules (Special Order)
Hydromorphone 50mg/1ml solution for…
One-off increase to the Advance Payment
The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) has made further representations that pharmacy contractors in England are still experiencing cash flow issues. In light of the concerns expressed, there will be a one-off increase to the…
Payments for Clinical Director duties
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…
Submitting the retirement benefit claim form (AW8) on Pensions Online - incorrect payable date
When you are completing the retirement benefit claim form (AW8) on Pensions Online (POL), make sure you have entered the correct payable date. There are a number of common errors when submitting form AW8 via POL:
Input as Age retirement but not…
Submission of paper retirement benefit claim forms (AW8)
We are currently receiving a number of paper retirement benefit claim forms (AW8) for employers that do not have access to Pensions Online. However we are unable to process a large proportion of these due to the members’ records still being active…
Important changes to application forms
The following forms have recently been updated to include an additional option within the applicant’s declaration and consent section.
Consideration of entitlement to ill health retirement claim form (AW33E)
Consideration of entitlement for…