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Members can increase their pension benefits in a number of ways. Additional Pension To set up an Additional Pension, follow the instructions in the Additional Pension decision tree (PDF: 311KB). Added Years Read the Added Years factsheet (…

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced a consultation on proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme regulations, which are required to implement the second part of the McCloud remedy. In 2015 the government made changes to…

The Partial Retirement Calculator can be accessed from the partial retirement page of the website: Partial retirement | NHSBSA With partial retirement, you can take up to 100% of your pension, stay in your job, and carry on building up new pension…

In 2022, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed changes to the amount members pay for their NHS Pension benefits. We wrote to members at the time and explained that some changes would take effect on 1 October 2022, while others…

Divorce or dissolution of civil partnership can affect your NHS pension. The court treats the value of pension benefits as an asset and may make an order to share the value of this asset between the parties involved. Read our guide to pensions on…

If you have another pension, you can apply to transfer it into the NHS Pension Scheme. Any pension transferred in will be added to your benefits in the NHS Pension Scheme. Moving within the NHS If you move from one NHS employer in England and…

Annual Allowance Employer information required for Annual Allowance By law, employers must provide NHS Pensions with available pay and membership information by 6 July each year to allow Pension Savings Statements to be provided to members. We…

The Contribution Collection area of the NHS Pensions Finance web page has been updated to include information regarding the payment of pension contributions, premature early retirement, injury benefit, final pay control costs and late payment…

On-demand annual allowance statements are now being issued within the three-month target from receipt. However, there are a number of cases that require further information or update before the statement can be issued. If you made a request more…

From 1 April 2019 the Scheme Access Team has introduced an annual check, at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care. The check is to ensure that the access granted to all non-automatic Employing Authorities is still relevant, and is…