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Information about how your pay is used to calculate your benefits. Officer pension statement In the 1995/2008 Scheme, we calculate your benefits for the NHS Pensions Scheme: using your ‘final year’s pensionable pay’ for the 1995 Section…

The following forms have recently been updated to include an additional option within the applicant’s declaration and consent section. Consideration of entitlement to ill health retirement claim form (AW33E) Consideration of entitlement for…

Contributions paid to increase benefits qualify for full tax relief. They cannot exceed 100% of your taxable pay. Lifetime Allowance Since 6 April 2006 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has set a Lifetime Allowance limit. This is on tax free pension…

Our non POL update process is now well underway and we wanted to provide employers with an update on our activities so far. • We have currently received 14.69% of the spreadsheets we are expecting from employers. • The Stakeholder Engagement Team…

Employers are required in legislation to provide information to NHS Pensions which enables Pension Savings Statements to be provided to members. This statement informs members whether they have exceeded the Annual Allowance limit in the NHS Pension…

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…

We notified you in the January 2019 employers newsletter about proposed changes to the National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019.   The proposed changes include:…

This year the Annual Allowance team have experienced a much higher receipt of work requests than in previous years. Particularly, the requests for ‘On-Demand’ statements have doubled and more recently we have been unable to meet the three month…

Between August 2013 and March 2019, we led a national savings programme known as Pacific. This was in collaboration with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England and other organisations. The Pacific programme used insight from…

Following the article published in July, we have received a number of queries from employers and we felt that further clarification was necessary. Checking the payable date Opted out less than 5 years ago Member has opted out less…