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Process reminder for pensionable pay on retirements
There has been an increase in queries from employers relating to pensionable pay for 1995 Section members. We want to provide a better understanding for you of how our processes work for awards and sub awards and help alleviate some your concerns.…
Membership enquiries
The website membership enquiry process will be updated to include Retrospective and Part Time Access (PTA) as well as a few smaller changes with the existing standard membership. The volume of Retrospective and PTA membership enquiries is relatively…
Final Pay Control update
Following the article in September’s Newsletter introducing the FPC1 form, we are pleased to report this has helped reduce the number of invoices going out to employers and helped prevent charges being over/under stated based on the information you…
Changes to email addresses and notification to NHS Pensions
We have become aware that organisations have been asked to review the email addresses they use, with some organisations changing this to a non nhs.net/ nhs.uk email account.
If you have amended your email address, then you will need to notify NHS…
RE08 re-employment form
In January we explained there were some changes that were going to made where we intended to remove the RE08 (re-employment form) from the retirement notice letter for all types of retirements, except for those which are still subject to abatement (…
Requesting employer events or training for your organisation
The Stakeholder Engagement Team run a series of events throughout the year to provide regular updates and deliver educational training.
Please see the employer events section of the Employer Hub for upcoming events. These events are free of charge…
Clarity around protection of pay estimates
Following the Employer Newsletter article about protection of pay estimates published in June, we have provided the below guidelines:
Upon request we will provide a ‘most beneficial’ Age estimate, including protection of pay/multiple breaks, for…
Submitting a retirement benefits claim form (AW8) on Pensions Online (POL)
Since changes to Pensions Online (POL) were implemented in September, we have received a large number of AW8s that have been submitted with either incorrect payable dates or incorrect reasons for retirement. We have also received applications that…
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
As you may be aware, new data protection regulations will come into UK law on 25 May 2018. GDPR will update the Data Protection Act and is more stringent in its rules.
We will need to be much more specific in how we describe to people how we wish…
Claim my NHS pension
Last month we told you about the pensions digital service ‘Claim my NHS Pension’ going into Private Beta. The service allows deferred members to complete and submit the deferred benefits claim form (AW8P) online.
So far we are controlling the…