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Please note: This article and letter are for the attention of GP Practices who submit NHS Pension Scheme contributions via Pensions Online (POL) only. There will be a change of banking arrangements taking place at the end of March 2018. The…

If during 2016/17 you elected to work in a GP practice on a long term (more than six months) self-employed basis and recorded your work, in NHS pension terms, as a type 2 medical Practitioner, rather than as a freelance GP locum, you may ask NHS…

Refreshed TRS/ Annual Benefits Statement will be made available by the end of August 2020 and the mid-year refresh will be available in December 2020. The employer contributions increased with effect from 1 April 2019 from 14.38% to 20.68%. You…

We receive many emails from employers and members querying the Additional Pension (AP) rejection letters they receive. It has been brought to our attention that in some circumstances AP may still be being paid despite a rejection letter being sent.…

Our Level 2 GP Practice Manager Events will be starting in September. We'll be publishing the registration details via Eventbrite in the Employer Update in the next couple of months. These events will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams and…

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…

The final pay controls (FPC) team received 1,416 applications for reassessment, with 881 of these received in December 2021 alone. The team have completed 60% of all reassessments received so far and are working hard to complete the remainder as…

To help support NHS Pension Scheme members who are continuing to deal with the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the decision has been taken to extend the voluntary scheme pays deadline for 2020/21. If a member has an annual allowance…

On 8 February 2017, the Supreme Court ruled to allow Ms Brewster’s appeal and declared the requirement in the 2009 Regulations of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Northern Ireland, that the appellant and her partner should have made a…

In Employer Newsletter 2 – February 2017 we advised that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had changed the bank account for the payment of contributions for members of the NHS Money Purchase Additional Voluntary Contribution (MPAVC) scheme with…