In this section, you will find all of the employer technical updates. You can access them by clicking on the relevant tabs below.
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Employer Technical Updates - 2024/2025
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 1 – 2024/2025
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Executive Summary
- Tiered Contribution Thresholds for Employees for 2023/24 & 2024/25
- Special Class & Mental Health Officer Abatement Provisions
- Partial Retirement Legislation
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 2 – 2024/2025
- Executive Summary
- Meeting the 9.8% Yield
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2023/2024
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 4 – 2023/2024
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Employer Contribution Rate
- 16 Hour Rule
- Re-joining the HSC Pension Scheme (post retirement)
- Partial Retirement
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 3 – 2023/2024
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- HSC Pension Flexibilities Consultation – Reminder
- HSC Pension Scheme McCloud Remedy – Part Two Consultation Response Document
- HSC Pension Scheme McCloud Part Two Regulations
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 2 – 2023/2024
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- HSC Pension Scheme – Proposed amendments to scheme regulations regarding flexibilities
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 1 – 2023/2024
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- McCloud Project Update
- McCloud Remedy Affected Member Warning
- Department of Finance Consultation – Employer Cost Cap
- Applications for Consideration for Ill Health Retirement – Update
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2022/2023
Employer Technical Update June 2022
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation
- Annual Allowance – Information Required
- Consultation on proposed changes to member contributions from 1 April 2022
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update October 2022
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation – Update
- Change in Member Contribution Rates
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update December 2022
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Applications for Consideration for Ill Health Retirement
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update March 2023
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- HSC Pension Scheme Contribution Rates 2022/23
- Alignment of the Comsumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Rates (Annual Allowance)
- McCloud Project Update
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2021/2022
Employer Technical Update June 2021
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Update on McCloud Judgement
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation
- Annual Allowance Information Required
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update December 2021
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Coronavirus Act 2020 & the HSC Pension Scheme
- Department of Health Consultations
- Senior Managers Cash Equivalent Transfer Value Figures
- Reduction or Forteiture of Benefits/Forfeiture
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update March 2022
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- McCloud Remedy Consultation & Regulations
- Suspension of Abatement of Pension & 16 Hr Per Week Rule
- Amendment to Member Contributions
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2020/2021
Employer Techical Update April 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- COVID-19 Impact on Services
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation
- Authorised Leave & Career Breaks
- Final Pay Control – Reminder
- Application for Consideration for ‘In Service’ Ill Health Retirement
- Contact Us
Employer Techical Update July 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Applications for Consideration for Ill Health Retirement – Update
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation
- Guidance where employees are not furloughed but have a temporary reduction in hours
- Annual Allowance Information Required
- Delivering through the Pandemic
- Contact Us
Employer Techical Update August 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Department of Finance Public Service Pension Schemes Consultation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contact Us
Employer Techical Update September 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Public Service Pension Schemes Consultation – Reminder
- Final Pay Controls – Reminder
- Annual Allowance & Annual Benefit Statements
- HSC Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme
- Contact Us
Employer Techical Update January 2021
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Public Sector Pension Scheme Consultation Update – McCloud Case
- Senior Managers Cash Equivalent Transfer Value Figures
- Coronavirus Act 2020 – Change to Pension Legislation – Reminder
- Contact Us
Employer Techical Update March 2021
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Public Sector Pension Scheme Consultation Update
- 2020/21 Greenbury Update – Completion of Information for Scheme Accounts
- Coronavirus Legislation
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2019/2020
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 1 – 2019-2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Transfer of Functions from Payroll Shared Services
- Employer Contribution Rates
- Reduction or Forfeiture of Benefits
- Member Estimates
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 2 – 2019-2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Supreme Court Ruling
- Annual Allowance – Impact on Senior Staff
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 3 2019-20
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Senior Managers Cash Equivalent Transfer Value Figures
- Annual Allowance Information (reminder)
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – February 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- The McCloud Judgement – Joint Statement
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – March 2020
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Executive Summary
- COVID-19 – HSC Pension Scheme Changes
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2018/2019
Employer Technical Update – June – 2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- New LTA
- Annual Benefit Statements 2018
- HSC Pension Service Privacy Statement
- Pension Application Process
- Changes to Pensionable Pay in Year
- Reduction or Forfeiture of Benefits
- Salary Sacrifice
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – October – 2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- ICATS
- Career Break – Retrospective Payments
- Career Breaks and Annual Leave
- Final Pay Control
- Locum Employment – Percentage Contribution Rate
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – January – 2019
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Pension Band Review
- New Joiner Questionnaire/Re-Joiner Form – Potential impact to members
- Annual Leave/Pensionable Service
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – February – 2019
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Ill Health Retirement – Eligibility Criteria
- Reduction or Forfeiture of Benefits
- Estimate of Benefits – New Procedures
- Annual Allowance – Voluntary Scheme Pays
- Consultation on Draft Regulations – DoH
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – March – 2019
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Employer/Employee Contribution Rates
- HSC Pension Scheme Actuarial Factors
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2017/2018
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 1 -2017-2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Nominated non-legal Partner Benefits – Update
- Pension Scams
- Application for consideration for In Service Ill Health Retirement
- The HSC Pension Scheme Board
- Member Self Service
- On Call Working
- Eligibility to Join the Scheme
- Termination Notices – Accompanying AW6
- Revised/New Scheme Forms
- Earnings Cap
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 2 -2017-2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword
- Qualifying for Protection in the 1995/2008 Scheme (as a result of Previous Public Service Membership)
- Proposed Change in State Pension Age
- In Service Ill Health Retirement Applications – Clarifications
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Pension Regulator Update
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 3 -2017-2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Auto Enrolment and eligibility to be members of the HSC Pension Scheme
- Bank/Casual Employment (Three month Rule) Reminder
- Payment of survivor benefits for unmarried partners
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Pensionable Pay
- Senior Managers Cash Equivalent Transfer Value Figures
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 4 -2017-2018
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Final Pay Control
- Pensionable Pay – Clarification
- On Call Working
- Pension Increase 2018
- 2008 Scheme Members – Opt Out Exercise
- Revision of Pension Payments – Potential Overpayments
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2016/2017
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 1 – 2016 – 2017
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Actuarial Factors
- Updated Forms
- Administration Charges
- Member Newsletter
- Choice 2 Exercise – Important Notice
- Nil CPI For 2016/17 – how it affects fixed protection 2012 or 2014
- Members applying for individual or fixed protection 2016
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Annual Allowance Calculations
- Employers Forum
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 2 – 2016 – 2017
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Survivor Nomination Forms
- Updated Forms
- Member Newsletter
- Change of Regulations—Ill Health Retirement
- New Joiner Questionnaire
- Choice 2
- ERRBO
- Employer Requests for Guidance or Clarification of Scheme Rules or Regulations
- Transfer In—Disclosure of Information
- Annual Leave—Pensionable Service
- Protection of Pensionable Pay
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 3 – 2016 – 2017
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Payment of Survivors Pension Following Death in Pensionable Service
- Protection of Pensionable Pay
- Lifetime Allowance Protection (LTA)
- Annual Benefit Statements
- Transfer in of NHS Benefits
- Transfer in of Benefits from Non NHS Pension Schemes
- Senior Managers Cash Equivalent Transfer Value Figures
- Updated Forms
- Contact Us
Employer Technical Update – Quarter 4 – 2016 – 2017
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Foreword/Executive Summary
- Provision of Survivors Benefits for Unmarried Couples (Judicial Review)
- Procedural Guidance for Employers
- On Call Working Arrangements (Pensionable Earnings)
- Concurrent Employments
- Transfer of Benefits from other NHS Pension Schemes
- Protection of Pensionable Pay – (closing date for retrospective applications)
- Revised Scheme Forms
- HSC Pension Service Publications
- Contact Us
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Employer Technical Updates - 2015/2016
Employer Technical Update – September – 2015
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Administration and Interest Charges for HSC employers who pay their Scheme Contributions late
- Final Pay Controls and Employer Change
- Members’ Charter
- Amendments to Forms
- 2015 CARE Scheme
- Estimate Process
- New GP Payment System
- Redundancy
- Salary Sacrifice
- Early Retirement Reduction Buy Out (ERRBO)
- Notification of Backdated Pay Awards for Pensionable Employees
- WTE TSR Calculation
Employer Technical Update – December – 2015
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Auto Enrolment
- Death Gratuity Payments
- Commutation of Benefits with Life Expectancy of Less than 1 year
- Impact of the Abolition of Contracting Out
- Lump Sum Choice
- 3 Month Rule
- Changes of Lifetime Allowance
- Refund of Contributions
- Transfer In of Service
- Pension Taxation – Summer Budget 2015
- GP’s Annual Certificate of Pensionable Profit
- Locum Administration
- Employers’ Forum
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Employer Technical Updates - 2014/2015
Employer Techical Update – January – 2014
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Annual Allowance: Deadline for 2012/2013 Scheme Pays Election
- Proposed Employee Contribution Rates for Scheme year 1 April 2014 to 31 March (Year three of three)
- Revised Process of paying GP Practice Staff Contributions – April 2014
- Auto-enrolment
- Application for refund
- Disclosure of Senior Managers Remuneration (Greenbury) 2014
Employer Techical Update – March – 2014
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- The standard Lifetime Allowance (LTA) is reducing to £1.25m from 6 April 2014
- Fixed Protection 2014
- Individual Protection 2014
- 2014/2015 Tiered Contributions – Reminder
- Schedule of Charges
Employer Techical Update – October – 2014
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- HMRC restrictions on Lump sum’s exceeding £312,500
- Pension Scams: A lifetime’s savings lost in a moment
- Lump Sum Choice – Pension Commutation
- Information escalation process
- Consultation on Proposals for a new HSC Pension Scheme
- Individual Protection 2014
- 2013/2014 GP Providers (and non GP providers) Certificate of Pensionable Income
- Employers’ Forum Update
Employer Techical Update – March – 2015
This Technical Update contains information regarding:
- Partner Nomination
- Tiered Contributions for Scheme Years 2015/2016 through to 2018/2019
- Lifetime Allowance: Loss of Enhanced Protection and Fixed Protection 2012 and 2014 because of the 2015 HSC Pension Scheme
- Salary Sacrifice
- Employer Services
- Public Service Pension Scheme History
- HSC Pension Service Communications Strategy
- Employers Forum