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Medical services transition
Our current contract with OH Assist to deliver Medical Services on behalf of the NHS Pension and NHS Injury Benefits Schemes expires on 23 July 2017. A new contract has been awarded to Medigold Health Consultancy Ltd who will deliver the service for…
Finance arrangements
From 24 July 2017 the NHSBSA will become responsible for finance services currently provided by Equiniti Paymaster. The transition will have little impact on finance business as usual procedures. Please continue to submit your monthly contributions…
2017 Year end updates
The deadline for supplying your year end information (for Officer and Practice staff members) has now passed. If you did not supply the information by 31 May, either via Pensions Online or by completing the spreadsheet that was emailed to you, your…
Total Reward Statements/Annual Benefit Statements data cut
The data cut for Total Reward Statements/Annual Benefit Statements was successfully taken following close of business on Friday 23 June 2017 and the activities for the 2017 refresh have now commenced, starting with around 3 million pension…
Heat maps (ESR employers)
This year’s heat maps have now been issued. They give you the results of how successful your ESR year end data was up to 31 March 2017.
The heat maps now reflect data errors that are not always avoidable (overlaps, exceeding whole time, etc.) more…
New call handler procedure
The procedures at our Contact Centre have recently changed and our call handlers are now required to log specific information about calls received. This is for audit purposes and to ensure that the correct caller information is being recorded and…
Letter of authority policy amendment
In order to allow a third party access to a member’s pension information, we require a letter of authority from the member. We ask that letters of authority only hold details for one individual at a time. Each member should have a separate letter of…
Annual Allowance information deadline date
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…
Estimates for members who have membership in the 1995/2008 Scheme with Protection of Pay
Following feedback from both our members and employers, we have made the decision that a member will qualify for a protection of pay estimate free of charge if they:
are over minimum pension age
intend to retire within the next 12 months.
The…
Pensions Online downtime
Pensions Online (POL) will be unavailable between the following times:
7pm on Friday 30 June and 7am on Monday 3 July
7pm on Friday 7 July and 7am Monday 10 July
7pm on Friday 28 July and 7am Monday 31 July.
Please note: at times we may need…