Make Contribution Payments (POL Organisations)
Onboarding of existing employers to our new contribution payment platform, Make Contribution Payments (MCP), is progressing well and around 3,000 have now subscribed to the new system.
All organisations with a direct debit in place were asked to complete a short questionnaire. Organisations that completed this and fulfilled the onboarding criteria then received a user name and password to the new system.
Primary users that were onboarded will have also been subscribed for the contribution reminder email. If you have received this reminder, you have been registered on our system. If you did not receive your username and password, go to the payments page on the MCP website and click ‘forgotten password’.
We will be contacting organisations that did not respond to the initial survey shortly requesting information to onboard them over the coming months. Migration to the new system is mandatory for organisations using POL as the functionality will be removed over the coming months.
Organisations who have not fulfilled the onboarding criteria at this time (multiple EA codes or where you have provided alternate contact details for the survey) will be onboarded over the coming months. Until then, please continue to make contribution payments via Pensions Online.
We are now starting to receive a number of frequently asked questions regarding the functionality of the new system and these have been published, alongside the answers, on our online Pensions Finance page.
If you have any questions about the new Make Contribution Payments system, contact nhsbsa.stakeholderengagement@nhs.net
Make Contribution Payments (non-POL Organisations)
As part of the ongoing programme of digitisation work, we have developed a service for all employers to instruct the collection of employer and member contributions through a web based platform. We have now onboarded in excess of 2,000 employers who are currently using Pensions Online.
We would now like to further extend this service to non-POL organisations.
Benefits of using the new system include:
- The facility for pensions administrators to schedule payments in advance of the monthly deadline to negate late payment
- The flexibility to access the MCP system on any computer with an internet connection
- The ability to access multiple EA codes in one area
- The opportunity for organisations administering a number of EA codes to use file upload facilities
The Stakeholder Engagement team will be contacting non-POL organisations over the next month to understand which employers would like to be onboarded at this time.