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As you may be aware, new data protection regulations will come into UK law on 25 May 2018. GDPR will update the Data Protection Act and is more stringent in its rules. We will need to be much more specific in how we describe to people how we wish…

Please note: This article and letter are for the attention of GP Practices who submit NHS Pension Scheme contributions via Pensions Online (POL) only. There will be a change of banking arrangements taking place at the end of March 2018. The…

We have produced a presentation that you can use to provide information to members at pre-retirement courses. This has been developed with input from employer representatives on the Service Improvement and Development (SID) Board, and has received…

Since January we have been working with a small group of Direction Bodies to pilot our online Financial Information Collection (FIC) service. FIC will enable all employers to submit their contributions securely online regardless of whether they have…

Pensions Online (POL) and our operating system (Compendia) went offline from 6pm on 24 May 2018 and will be available again from 10am on Monday 4 June. This is while we carry out the integration of pensioner data into our Compendia system ready for…

Last month we told you about the pensions digital service ‘Claim my NHS Pension’ going into Private Beta. The service allows deferred members to complete and submit the deferred benefits claim form (AW8P) online.  So far we are controlling the…

Our Stakeholder Engagement Team has been receiving a substantial amount of queries to complete in respect of our obligations under GDPR. A project team have been working on GDPR for some time and we have made good progress to ensure we are ready…

First awards A total of 4708 applications have been processed so far in July of which 99.47% were paid on time. To recap, for the full month of June 4616 were processed of which 98.57% were paid on time.   Bereavements Bereavements recovery is…

It has been confirmed by The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) that the SD65 form is no longer required to be completed by Direction employers for any new starters from the 1 August 2019. It will be the Employer’s responsibility to…

For terminal ill health cases, an AW341 application form is required along with the AW33E. The team have recently noticed an increase in terminal ill health estimates being requested where the commuted incapacity box has been ticked in error to…