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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…

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…

The general basic rule is that a contribution tier for existing Officers Scheme members is set using the previous years’ pensionable earnings or whole time equivalent for members working part time. This is unless there has been, or there is, a…

The NHS Pensions Finance team is now using a paperless system for processing claims for re-imbursement of initial widow/widowers pensions (IWP). Therefore, we now require the form to be sent in a PDF format for audit purposes with a view to…

HMRC has introduced a new digital service that will enable members who have new annual allowance charges, or changes to annual allowance charges as a result of rollback, to: • reassess any previous annual allowance charges during the remedy period…

We’re working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS Employers and NHS England to work through the new rules to allow members to take partial retirement from 1 October 2023 and help employers get ready for the change. The…

On an annual basis all employing authorities (EAs) are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions. You must submit this information to NHS Pensions by 24 May 2024.   If you use Pensions Online (POL) you should submit this year end…

On 8 February 2017, the Supreme Court ruled to allow Ms Brewster’s appeal and declared the requirement in the 2009 Regulations of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Northern Ireland, that the appellant and her partner should have made a…

The proposals in the consultation are to: deliver phase 2 of the review of member contributions introduce a new employer pension contribution rate in line with the results of the 2020 scheme valuation permanently remove abatement for special…