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Members affected by the changes to public service pension schemes, sometimes known as ‘McCloud’ or the Public Service Pension Schemes’ Remedy, will be asked if they would like to receive legacy scheme or reform scheme pension benefits for their…

The issue that was affecting the Partial Retirement Calculator has been resolved. The Partial Retirement Calculator can be accessed from the partial retirement page of the website: Partial retirement | NHSBSA As a reminder, members can use the …

A number of cases have come to light whereby a member has been offered a career break immediately following sick leave. Career breaks should not be used instead of sick leave, or to prevent the member accruing disallowed days. Where a member has…

 NHS Pensions is continuing to receive applications for; The Consideration of Entitlement to Ill Health Retirement benefits (AW33E)  The Consideration of Entitlement for Early Payment of Deferred Benefits due to Ill Health (AW240)  Due to the…

Following the release of Total Reward Statements (TRS) and annual benefit statements (ABS), NHS Pensions has received enquiries regarding the retirement age for Special Class transitional members showing as age 60.  If a member held Special Class…

Employers are reminded of the importance of using the correct termination code when closing down a pension record normally from the beginning of the next pay period. Exit code 16 should be used for all cases where the member continues to work but…

We have noticed an increase in the number of requests from employers received on behalf of the members, to change the decision in relation to their lump sum choice when completing the retirement application form AW8. We are therefore asking…

From 1 April 2025, the tiered contribution ranges to work out the contribution rate a member pays for membership of the Scheme has changed. The new ranges are: Pensionable pay ranges from 1 April 2025 Contribution rates from 1 April…

Further dates are available for the Level 1 and Level 2 GP practice manager events, which include educational training tailored for practice managers, delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams.   Practice managers need to attend the whole training…

A number of cases have recently been identified where employers have incorrectly recorded individual managers as having automatic entitlement to SCS (i.e. Capacity Code = 01, Nurse with Special Class status when the Capacity Code should be 04 –…