As you may be aware, the Government Gateway is in the process of being decommissioned which means we have been looking for another way for NHS staff to access their Total Reward or Annual Benefit Statement. From early June we will be entering the Private Beta stage of the project and will be testing using GOV.UK Verify as an access route into TRS/ABS.
GOV.UK Verify is much faster and easier to use than the current arrangements. Rather than having to register and wait seven days for a pin and password through the post, staff can go online and register for a Verify account and authenticate who they are in about 10-15 minutes. They can then access their statement straight away.
Your staff may already have a Verify account because it is used to access several Government Services. If so they will not need to register again but can use their existing Verify details to log into their statement.
These new arrangements only affect staff who work in organisations that don’t have access to ESR Self Service. Those that do can continue to access their statement via their ESR portal as usual.
For Private Beta we will be limiting the numbers of people accessing their statements via Verify to ensure that everything is working correctly. We hope to roll the service out to all eligible users in the summer in time for the statement refresh. We will keep you updated in future newsletters and in the employer forums.