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GP/GDP claiming retirement benefits
NHS Pensions is seeing an increase in the amount of retirement benefit claim forms (AW8) being signed by the incorrect employing authorities.
If the member is a GP in England all GP pensions are administrated by Primary Care Support England (PCSE)…
Institute of Customer Service membership
NHS Pensions is proud to be a member of The Institute of Customer Service (ICS).This is the professional body for customer service, helping organisations improve their customer experience and business performance. It has a membership body of over…
2021/22 GP locum forms A and B
GP Locum forms A and B for 2021/22 are now available on the Information for practitioners and non-GP Providers webpage of our Member Hub.
The ‘10-week rule’ for declaring pensionable locum work has been suspended for 2021/22 to give GP locums more…
TRS / Annual Benefits Statements refresh
TRS and Annual Benefits Statement will be made available by the end of August 2021 and the mid-year refresh will be available in December 2021.
The employer contributions increased with effect from 1 April 2019 from 14.38% to 20.68%. You were…
GP forms are now available
The 2016/17 Annual Certificate of pensionable profits that all GP Providers and non-GP Providers who are partners or ‘single- handers’ (i.e. sole traders) are required to complete is now available. The certificate is available from our website.
The…
GP Practice Manager Events - Level 2
The NHS Pensions Stakeholder Engagement Team are delivering Level 2 GP Practice Events commencing in November presenting educational training tailored for practice managers. These events will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams.
Practice…
New ill health resources for members and employers
Having recently reviewed our ill health retirement processes, we have published a number of new resources to help support members applying for ill health retirement benefits.
These include:
a new dedicated ill health retirement benefits…
Department of Health and Social Care launches consultation on introduction of retirement flexibilities
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced a consultation on proposals to amend the NHS Pension Scheme rules to help retain more experienced NHS clinicians and remove barriers to staff returning to work following retirement.
What is…
Introducing proposed retirement flexibilities
In December the Department of Health and Social Care announced proposals to change the NHS Pension Scheme regulations to enable NHS staff to work flexibly up to and beyond retirement age.
We included details of the DHSC’s proposals in our December…
Closure of 1995/2008 Scheme and transition of members to 2015 Scheme
As part of the changes to public pension schemes, both the 1995 and 2008 Sections of the 1995/2008 Scheme closed on 31 March 2022.
All active members of the 1995/2008 Scheme were automatically moved to the 2015 Scheme on 1 April 2022.
We wrote to…