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We’re currently receiving high volumes of retirement applications. This means it’s taking us longer than usual to process payment of retirement benefits. While we prioritise making payments to our members, it may take us longer than usual to…

Following the nationally agreed pay award, which has been backdated to April 2024, the pay for any retirements from that date will need revising to ensure the pension is being paid at the correct level. For partial retirements, where pay cannot be…

Amendments will be made to Pensions Online (POL) to allow employers to submit AW8 retirement applications for members of the 2015 Scheme and members who have benefit entitlement in multiple schemes. This enhancement is currently anticipated to go…

Further to our update last month we can confirm that the following videos have gone live: Family and your pension Retire and return Retire and return after ill health retirement The videos are intended to provide a high level overview of…

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…

We would like to remind all employers that your member records should be updated up to 31 March 2018 by 31 May 2018. Our Data Management Team continue to work on priority data errors in readiness for the…

The Greenbury window for submission has been available since Monday the 7 of January 2019, to date we have received 2519 requests and have cleared 1935 of them.  The disclosure window is open until Thursday 28 February 2019 to enable us to provide…

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…

NHS Pensions will be exhibiting alongside colleagues within the NHSBSA at this year’s Best Practice conference held at Birmingham NEC on 9 and 10 October 2019. Come along to stand G80 to say hello and ask our experts any queries you may have…

All employing authorities are required to submit end of year information to NHS Pensions on an annual basis. Our Data Management Team will send the prepopulated spreadsheet to the main EA contact week commencing 16 March 2020. This will be…