This year’s TRS data cut for the annual refresh will take place after 7 pm on Friday 19 June 2020 with refreshed statements being made available by the end of August 2020.
Our NHS Pensions team will be working hard to try and ensure that as many updates as provided to us before the June date are applied and we have included further information below on the steps we are taking to support employers who are unable to submit updates by the usual deadline. Where it is not possible for updates to be applied, information may appear unchanged on an individual’s August TRS. However, any updates that have been missed will be captured in the mid-year refresh.
The data cut for the mid-year refresh will take place after 7 pm on Friday 9 October 2020. Statements will be made available in December 2020.
Further information and updates will be provided in our Pension Update.
Non-Pensions Online (POL) Annual Updates
On an annual basis, all employing authorities are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions. For employers who do not have access to POL, our Data Management Team have previously shared a spreadsheet to your organisation’s main EA contact during March 2020. This will have been partially prepopulated and will include details of all the members where we believe an annual update should be submitted. The main EA contact will have been asked to submit the requested information to NHS Pensions by 31st May 2020.
We understand that due to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many employers will be having to adapt to new ways of working and may not have access to all of the systems and information they typically would have.
We would like to reassure employers that we understand that as a result, it may not be possible for your organisation to submit its year end annual updates by the 31st May deadline. We have also been advised by the Pensions Regulator that they will not take action against employers who cannot meet the deadline as a result of issues outside of their control caused by COVID-19.
Where possible we ask that you do still try to provide the updates by the deadline, or as close to this as you can. The data for the production of the August Total Rewards Statements (TRS) will be collected as per the above TRS data collection dates. Where it is not possible for updates to be applied by this date, information may appear unchanged on an individual’s August TRS. However, any updates that have been missed will be captured in the later update to TRS that will be available to view in December.
If you have any queries or are unsure about completing this process in 2020, please contact nhsbsa.stakeholderengagement@nhs.net