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2024
August 2024 This Edition Includes: Pension and Life Saving Association 2024 campaign – Pension Awareness Week July 2024 This Edition Includes: Revised Employer Decision Form (IHCURR2) – Employer Focus Sessions – Terminally Ill Employees – Save the Date – Returning Officers – Pay Your Pension Some Attention June 2024 This Edition Includes: Employer Focus Sessions – Returning Officers – Leavers Spreadsheet – Annual Returns – Pensions Mailboxes May 2024
This Edition Includes: Employer Focus Sessions, Employer Pensions Discretions Policy, Returning Officers, Ill Health Retirement EstimatesMay 2024 – Annual Allowance This Edition Includes: Annual Allowance April 2024 This Edition Includes: Employer Focus Sessions – Pensions Annual Return 23/24 – LGA Employer Training – New Webpages – Monthly Interface Template – Pension Admin Strategy Follow Up Meeting – Ill Health Retirements – Opt Out Forms – Don’t Forget to March 2024 This Edition Includes: Changes to the Leaver’s Spreadsheet – HR Authorisation Forms – Clarification of Leap Year – Employee Contribution Rates Devon Pensions Administration Strategy Special This Edition Includes: Devon Pensions Administration Strategy March Special This Edition Includes: Pensions Monthly Interface Template February This Edition Includes: Update following consultation on the Pension Administration Strategy – Submission of Leaver Spreadsheet – 2024/25 Employee contribution bands – Employer Contribution rates for Academies and Multi Academy Trusts – Information required regarding member excess service for Transitional Protection changes – Providing Full Time Equivalent Pay – Leap year pay January This Edition Includes: Employer Estimates – Revised Leaver Forms – Pension Administration Strategy Consultation Update – HR Authorisation Forms – Annual Returns 2023/2024
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2023
December This Edition Includes: Christmas Wishes – Consultation on the Pension Administration Strategy – Outstanding Cases – Leaver’s Spreadsheet format – LGA McCloud Remedy Pages – Training for LGPS Fund Employers November This Edition includes: PP Employer Meetings, Consultation on the Pension Administration Strategy, Leavers spreadsheet, Outstanding Cases, 2023 Pay Award for Local Government Services, New Financial System for Devon Fund Employers, Christmas Closing Times November Consultation Special This Edition includes: Consultation on revised Pensions Administration Strategy November Employer Meetings – Final Notice This Edition includes: November Employer Meetings
November – Employer Meetings ReminderThis edition includes: Employer Meetings reminder October This edition includes: Missing Pensions Lines – The McCloud Remedy – Member Self Service Employer Meeting Special – October This edition includes: Employer meeting information September This Edition Includes: Providing FTE pay, Correction for new academies in last month’s edition, Correct reason for leaving, Employer Pension Forum, Strike action FAQ, #PensionAttention September Special #2 This Edition Includes: Members paying additional contributions in 2022/2023 September Special #1 This Edition Includes: Pensions Employer Meetings August This Edition Includes: New employers and academies – Internal dispute resolution procedure (IDRP) – Members who are approaching age 75 – Pay your pension some attention – Annual Benefits Statements – New Employer Resources August Special #2 This Edition Includes: Employer Duties – Consequences of not complying – Provision of data – Making payments to the pension fund August Special #1 This Edition Includes: Employer Estimates July This Edition Includes: Submission of the Leaver Spreadsheet – Pensions Mailboxes – Employer Forms to be Submitted – Returning Officers – Annual Allowance 2022/2023 – Thank you for your Feedback July Special #1 This edition includes – Employer Estimates Are on Hold June This edition includes: Leaver’s spreadsheet – TPR warns employers about auto-enrolment duties – Guarantee for academy trusts outsourcing arrangements – Changing your payroll provider June Special #1 This edition includes: Are you ready for McCloud? – What will it mean? – Who will it affect? May This edition includes: Updated LGA employer guides – Leaver’s spreadsheet – Capita cyberattack – Auto interfunds – Annual return (late submissions) – Annual allowance 2022/2023 – Peninsula Pensions at Devon county show April This edition includes: Annual Returns Deadline – Forms to be submitted for all employer led retirements – Employer key decision forms – New leaver spreadsheet March This edition includes: New Leavers Spreadsheet – Reminder for Employer forms to be submitted – Lifetime and Annual Allowance – Egress Switch. February This Edition Includes: New Leavers Spreadsheet – Employer Key decisions and HR authorisation forms – Annual Returns 2023 – Employee Contribution Rates from 01 April 2023 – Estimates. January This Edition Includes: New leavers spreadsheet – Employer Key Decisions Form – Submitting data on CARE interface – Estimates – Average of Best 3 Consecutive Years Pensionable Pay Within the Last 13.
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