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The third episode of our NHS Pensions podcast is now available. The third instalment delves into the various benefits of the NHS Pension Scheme including additional pension, lump sums, early retirement, and ill health options. The podcast series is…

To help support NHS Pension Scheme members who are continuing to deal with the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the decision has been taken to extend the voluntary scheme pays deadline for 2020/21. If a member has an annual allowance…

Partial Retirement Calculator The Partial Retirement Calculator was released on Tuesday 12 December 2023 and available on the Partial Retirement page of our website until Friday 15 December 2023. We have temporarily taken down the Partial…

On 8 February 2017, the Supreme Court ruled to allow Ms Brewster’s appeal and declared the requirement in the 2009 Regulations of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Northern Ireland, that the appellant and her partner should have made a…

It’s been a few months since we introduced the final system changes to automate the AW171 process. You now no longer need to send us the AW171 form to trigger a review of the pension in payment and determine whether a revised pension is appropriate…

There are three main reasons why a pension statement may not be available. These are listed below, with just some examples of why this may be the case. There is a data issue that needs to be investigated Examples include: an outstanding data…

We anticipate that the Greenbury functionality within Pensions Online (POL) will be available from Tuesday 4 January 2022. Requests for disclosure information should be received by NHS Pensions between 4 January 2022 and 28 February 2022 to enable…

We want to ensure that we have the most up to date contact for all employers. To support this, we ask that the main Pensions Online Administrator for each employer checks the contact details we hold are correct. To do this, access Pensions Online (…

The NHS Pensions member events aim to help members understand everything you need to know about your NHS pension and how to navigate through the Scheme. We have a number of events planned throughout the year to help you: understand what the NHS…

In December the Department of Health and Social Care announced proposals to change the NHS Pension Scheme regulations to enable NHS staff to work flexibly up to and beyond retirement age.  We included details of the DHSC’s proposals in our December…