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On 1 July 2021 the final pay control rules changed. These changes were applied retrospectively from the 1 April 2018 and employers were able to apply for final pay control charge invoices received or paid between 1 April 2018 and 1 July 2021 to be…

All employing authorities (EAs) are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis. Our Data Management Team sent the prepopulated spreadsheet to the main EA contact in March. This has been partially prepopulated and…

You should not submit AW8’s via email if you have access to POL. Top tips: Remember to provide the contact number of the member so we can keep them updated. You should record the reason for retirement in the drop-down box as ‘Partial Retirement…

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…

Following the change of the Employers email account to nhsbsa.pensionsemployers@nhsbsa.nhs.uk on the 1 April 2021 the following information will need to be included in member specific queries to ensure that employer queries are responded to in full…

All employing authorities (EAs) are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis. You must submit this information to NHS Pensions by 31 May. If you use Pensions Online (POL) you should submit this year end…

All employing authorities (EAs) are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis to enable us to update member records.   You must submit this information to NHS Pensions by Wednesday 31 May 2023.   If you use…

Following a recent determination by The Pension Ombudsman we have revised our guidance to employers to confirm how duties should be assessed when determining Mental Health Officer (MHO) status for a member of the 1995 Section of the NHS Pension…

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…

We suspended several steps in the data escalation process whilst we dealt with COVID-19 as we felt from an employer's and a Pension Team perspective, we all made significant adjustment to ways of working. The timeframes were lapsed and we stopped…