Employer Technical Update – Quarter 4 – 2024/2025

Below you will find the employer technical update, released in February 2025. You can access a downloadable/printable version here.

Contents:

• Executive Summary
• Consultation on the Health & Social Care Pension Schemes (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
• Contact Us

• Executive Summary

  This Employer Technical Update (ETU) provides you with details of the consultation launched by
  the Department of Health (DoH) which includes:

  • retrospectively amending the definition of overtime in the 2015 Scheme.
  • clarifying the method for calculating member contributions where pay reduces during a
    period of absence.
  • provision for general practitioner (GP) partners and non-GP (general practitioner) providers
    to update their annual certificate of pensionable profits for 2024 to 2025 to the amount
    declared to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on their revised tax return.
  • allow members who are affected by the McCloud remedy to revoke a deferred choice
    election or for a deferred choice election to lapse in certain circumstances.Within the consultation there are other technical and miscellaneous amendments to the
    regulations
• Consultation on the Health & Social Care Pension Schemes (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

  The consultation will run from 13th February 2025 to 10th April 2025. The consultation document
  and explanatory notes, a copy of the draft regulations and associated documents can be found at
  Consultation on The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Amendment No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025. | Department of Health

  The Department of Health welcomes any comments or views on the proposals set out in the
  consultation document and comments on the proposals can be submitted via email
  to: modernisation@health-ni.gov.uk

  Actions for Employers – Ensure all scheme members and other stakeholders are made aware
  of the consultation

• Contact Us

  By writing to us at:-
  HSC Pension Service
  Orchard House
  40 Foyle Street
  Derry
  BT48 6AT

  By Telephone: 028 7131 9111

  10.00 am to 12.00pm / 2.00 pm to 4.00pm – Monday to Thursday 10.00 am to 12.00pm – Friday

  Find Us on X – @hscpensions