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The Stakeholder Engagement Team has been cascading information over the last few months to inform non Pensions Online (POL) organisations of the changes being implemented in 2018 with the end of year return. To support employers through these…

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…

This is a reminder that employers should not be providing members with the EA contact number. This line is answered as a priority for employers only, and members using it can cause delays in responding to employers. Please encourage members to use…

We have seen an increase in the number of retirement applications (AW8) that have been inputted into POL or submitted incorrectly. We receive many AW8 forms that have been submitted with either incorrect payable dates or incorrect reasons for…

Our second round of employer events is now well underway having visited Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton and Exeter. We have put together this round of events based on feedback previously received and we are delighted to continue to receive positive…

Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. A total of 3236 applications have been processed so far in April 2019 of which 96.48% were paid on time and of those 82.62% lump…

Last month we advised that from 1 August 2020, NHS Pensions will no longer deal with comments submitted through POL error handling.  Where you can provide relevant information for resolving an error, you should now email nhsbsa.nwdatamanagement@nhs…

At the start of the COVID 19 outbreak we took a number of steps to support employers who were encountering issues due to the lockdown restrictions. This included agreeing to accept certain applications forms in PDF/Word format via email, instead of…

Sharing Our Performance - March 2019 Our level of performance continues to be maintained as we strive to process first pension payments in a timely manner. As of 26 March, a total of 3852 applications have been processed, 97.49% of which were paid…