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Tax implications
Contributions paid to additional pension benefits qualify for tax relief. They cannot exceed 100% of your taxable pay.
Lifetime Allowance
From 6 April 2006 to 5 April 2024 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) set a lifetime allowance limit. This is on…
Stakeholder pensions
If you're a member of the Scheme and a UK resident, you can also use the NHS stakeholder pension to top up your main Scheme benefits. You can do this instead of, or as well as, other top up arrangements.
We cannot guarantee your fund or the amount…
Bigger lump sum purchase
This is only for people who were members of the Scheme before 25 March 1972 (1995 Section only).
It applies to anyone who either:
is or has been married
has a civil partner
has a surviving Scheme partner
The person must be nominated to…
Overpaid Employer Contribution Rate 2019/20
Further to the communication in the March employer newsletter where we advised that all employers should continue to remit 14.38% employer contributions to the Scheme, it has come to our attention that a number of employers have paid more than 14.38…
Non-Pensions Online (POL) Annual Update
All employing authorities are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis.
Our Data Management Team will send the prepopulated spreadsheet to the main EA contact week commencing 16 March 2020. This will be…
Pensions Online – Error Handling
Pensions Online (POL) error handling has a facility for employers to submit a comment on an error, to the NHS Pensions Data Management Teams. Employers are asked to submit comments where additional information can be provided to enable NHS Pensions…
Update on error on 2023/24 Pension Savings Statements
Following our previous update, we can now provide more information to Scheme members affected by the 2023/24 pension savings calculation error.
We have written to affected members directly and will continue to provide regular updates. You do not…
Rollback of remedy period service
Every Public Service Pension Scheme is working through significant complexity to put in place the Public Service Pensions Remedy for all affected members
As the largest Scheme, the NHS Pension Scheme has made progress towards implementing the…