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The MCP submission home screen has recently been updated to allow for payment information to be submitted for both manual (BACS/Bank Transfer) and automated (Direct Debit/Automatic Collection) payment types. You should make sure you are selecting…

Following a consultation earlier this year regarding changes to member contributions that will be implemented from 1 October 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has recently consulted on proposals for how the pensionable earnings…

For those Employing Authorities who do not utilise or have not onboarded the Making Contribution Payments (MCP) or (Pensions Online) POL platforms we would like to remind you to include a payment remittance when submitting your contribution payments…

Following the success of the 2017/18 non POL update process, we've made a few improvements and are now well underway in rolling out the process for 2018 to 2019 to non POL employers. This has involved; face-to-face training for 125 pension…

The Data Management inbox (datamanagement@nhsbsa.nhs.uk) is not for general queries and should only be used in the following urgent cases:   To clear errors.  If you’ve been unable to make a change on POL and the POL helpdesk has been unable to…

Month Number of new awards due to be paid in month (our target) Number of new awards cleared within the month (our performance) Completion rate June 2018 2936 2198…

Members are liable for an annual allowance charge if their total pension growth - across all their pension schemes in a tax year, shown on their annual allowance pension savings statement as their pension input amount - is more than their available…

Where employers receive public funding for staff costs, and that funding is continuing, it is expected that employers will use that money to continue to pay staff in the usual way and not furlough them. This includes Trusts, GP Practices etc. who…

We would like to remind employers to regularly check Pensions Online (POL), employer error handling and clear any employer allocated errors. There are currently 158,000 data errors allocated to employers.  These errors potentially prevent your…

We are currently sending pension savings statements to members whose pension benefits have increased by more than the standard annual allowance. The annual allowance is the maximum amount of tax-free growth an individual’s pension can grow by in…