In April/ May this year, we made the decision, due to the huge uncertainty within the NHS at that time, that we would only request annual earning certificates for those pensioners who had their pension abated. We are now in a position to collect the rest of the earning certificates for all re-employed pensioners for the year 19/20.
As last year this exercise will be completed electronically via email. If you have re-employed pensioners working in your organisation, we will endeavour to email you a spreadsheet requesting their 2019/2020 earnings.
Please note that we require earnings from 1 April 2019 to 24 March 2020, which was the point that the relaxation of the Re-employment Regulations took effect. If we are unable to send you a spreadsheet, we will continue to issue paper earnings certificates to you via the post. You can return this to us either via email to nhsbsa.pensionearningscertificate@nhs.net or to the usual postal address.
Following feedback, we received from last year’s exercise we will include the employing authority (EA) code on the spreadsheet this year.
We have also made improvements to the way we process returned spreadsheets. It is important that you complete the details requested in the spreadsheet and return the spreadsheet to us as an email attachment. We will be unable to process information, which is not returned on the spreadsheet, including the notification that a pensioner is no longer employed. Therefore, it is important that you return each spreadsheet that we send to you.
Earnings certificates will be issued over the coming weeks and full instructions on how to complete and return the spreadsheet will be issued in the covering email. Please could you complete and return these at your earliest convenience.