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Make Contribution Payments - POL & non-POL
Make Contribution Payments (POL Organisations)
Onboarding of existing employers to our new contribution payment platform, Make Contribution Payments (MCP), is progressing well and around 3,000 have now subscribed to…
Contacting the NHSBSA Pensions Operational Finance Team
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, we are experiencing some delays in responding to your emails.
Please be assured that Pensions Operational Finance are working extremely hard to make sure that we respond to all queries as quickly as possible…
Using POL to submit annual data
Last month, your end of year information was due to be submitted to NHS Pensions.
If you use Pensions Online (POL), you should have submitted your end of year information via POL.
If you have any queries about using POL to submit your data next…
Who is eligible to be enrolled into the NHS Pension Scheme?
The Scheme is open to any NHS workers aged between 16 and 75 who are:
Directly employed by the NHS
Medical, dental and ophthalmic practitioners and trainees
General medical practice staff
Non-General Practice Providers
Individuals not…
Organisations who outsource their pensions activity to third party providers
Please remember that if you outsource your pensions activity to a third party provider, it is your responsibility for ensuring the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme is:
a) carried out in a timely manner and is in line with the Scheme…
Overpaid Employer Contribution Rate 2019/20
Further to the communication in the March employer newsletter where we advised that all employers should continue to remit 14.38% employer contributions to the Scheme, it has come to our attention that a number of employers have paid more than 14.38…
Ill Health Applications
When sending NHS Pensions the ill-health retirement application form and any supporting medical evidence, ensure these are sent to us as soon as possible.
This is particularly important for members who receive a terminal diagnosis. Sadly, NHS…
Part time pensionable pay update
Further to an article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter, we are continuing to consider the system changes required to ensure that the whole time equivalent pay is calculated correctly for part time staff who are in receipt of supplementary…
NHS Pension contributions remittances
For those Employing Authorities who do not utilise or have not onboarded the Making Contribution Payments (MCP) or (Pensions Online) POL platforms we would like to remind you to include a payment remittance when submitting your contribution payments…
Death in service – Outstanding annual leave
The members’ record should be terminated on either the date of death, or if annual leave extends the last day of service on that date using exit code 14.
Please also ensure the employer pay provided on the termination form includes payment for…