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Administration Foundations Courses for August - November 2023
This course is available to all new local administrators of the NHS Pension Scheme who are less than 12 months in post and provides an overview of what is expected of you as an NHS Pension Scheme administrator throughout a Scheme year.
At the end…
NHS Pensions member events - July 2023
The NHS Pensions member events aim to help members understand everything they need to know about their NHS pension and how to navigate through the Scheme.
We have several events planned throughout the year to help them, which includes: …
Partial retirement employer update and live event
A reminder that we are holding an NHS Pensions Employer Live Event on Partial Retirement at 10am on Wednesday 19 July 2023.
The event is aimed at payroll providers and pension administrators and will focus on the partial retirement application…
Stakeholder Engagement Events - July 2023
The Stakeholder Engagement Team run a series of events throughout the year providing regular updates and delivering educational training.
Please see the employer events section of the Employer Hub for upcoming events. These events are free of…
Information for employers receiving retirement or ill health retirement applications before 1 October 2023
From 1 October 2023, members with 1995 Section benefits can take partial retirement. You can find more information on partial retirement, including a guide for employers on our Employer hub.
We’ve put steps in place to process partial retirement…
Pensions Online (POL) Downtime - August 2023
POL will be available throughout August between 7am and 7pm apart from the following dates when there will be downtime for scheduled system maintenance:
Sunday 20 August
If we do need to bring POL down at short notice for urgent maintenance, we…
Information for employers on changes to early and late retirement factors
Following a change to the discount rate used for public service pension schemes that HM Treasury announced on 30 March 2023, the factors used to calculate early and late retirement factors from the scheme have changed. These have been implemented…
New email address for the Pension Scanning and Allocation Team
Our email addresses are changing.
If you're submitting documents to our Pension Scanning and Allocation department, our new email address is pensionscanquery@nhsbsa.nhs.uk.
If you are submitting attachments with emails, try to limit the size of…
Guidance for employers on strike action and action short of strike and pension records
Where an employee goes on strike the information provided previously remains relevant.
Where an employee undertakes action short of strike i.e. they work to rule, there are no disallowed days to add to the members pension record and if part-time…
Employer reminder of 24 hour break required for re-employed pensioners
When a pensioner decides to re-join the scheme after retirement (including retire and return) there must be a 24-hour break from when the employment ends (last day of membership) and the date the member returns to work.
We have seen an influx of…