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As you know, you can appoint your own IRMP to certify members meet the criteria for payment of ill-health benefits as long as they are qualified in Occupational Health medicine. However, they must have been approved by Peninsula Pensions for us to accept the completed ill-health certificates.
If you are using a doctor who we have not approved, please complete the Employer Contact Details form on our website with their full name, General Medical Council (GMC) number, their practice or contact details, email address and telephone number. We will then check their details and add to the approved list we hold internally. We are no longer asking for copies of the OH qualifications and solely use the verification on the GMC website – if the IRMP is not listed on the specialist register then your request will be rejected until other information has been provided.
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We will shortly be undertaking Annual Allowance calculations for scheme members and have identified 2 categories of members who may potentially breach the HMRC limit for 2024/2025:
- Employees who receive an annual salary of £90,000 or more per year,
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or Employees that have had an increase in salary over the last year of £5,000 or more
For employees who fall into either of the above categories, please arrange to add them to the linked spreadsheet and return to us by 4 July 2025.
If you provide payroll facilities for more than one employer, please complete and return a separate spreadsheet for each employer.
If you believe you have no employees who fall into the above categories, please confirm by returning the spreadsheet with the confirmation page completed.
Please send the data titled ‘Annual Allowance 2024/2025′ to our secure mailbox at: finance.pensionstechnicaltraining-mailbox@devon.gov.uk.
You may also use this mailbox for queries relating to the spreadsheet and Annual Allowance.
It may still be necessary to request further pay information for other employees that have differing circumstances, but we hope that by providing these details annually from now on, these requests will reduce in number.
We are finding a few of you are currently reviewing your structures/resources which has resulted in a busy time for employer estimate requests.
If you can, please give us as much notice as possible although we do appreciate you also get last minute requests. It would also be useful to have an expectation of your deadlines as this will help us manage resources and ensure that all our fund employers receive the same level of service.
Whilst we aim to remain within our standard working days turnaround time of 1 week (7 working days), there may be times when things take a little longer so we would appreciate your patience.
If you just require a strain cost for a number of employee’s, this can be processed in bulk (contact us for the spreadsheet) so are quick to process but when member statements are required too, we have to process those individually which takes more time.
Please note that we will not process individual estimate requests with a proposed date of leaving for more than 12 months in advance. However, we are happy to provide you with estimated strain costs (based on current pensionable pay) which can be requested using the bulk spreadsheet.
We've made some changes to the estimate request form to make it clearer what is needed for each reason for leaving, aiming to reduce follow on queries and possible delays in processing your request, the new form is available on our website.
The Local Government Association's (LGA) Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Training and Development team are holding an in-person employer role training course on 16 July 2025 at the LGA offices in London. It's a full day training course (10am to 4pm) aimed at employers participating in the LGPS. For full details of the content and how to book, see the course programme page on the Local Government Association website.
As mentioned in last week’s special edition, Prudential are holding four sessions to provide refresher training on submitting Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) payroll files and payments - each session is 45 minutes and you only need to attend one. To sign up for a session, please click on one of the links below:
Wednesday 4 June at 2pm
Wednesday 11 June at 10am
Wednesday 18 June at 2pm
Keep us updated with any changes in staff responsible for completing our forms (authorised signatories). This can be done by completing our online form.
Payment of Pension Fund Contributions - please remember to inform us and the relevant Finance team each time you have paid your pension scheme contributions, by filling in the Monthly Contributions Form.
If you are changing your Payroll Provider, please contact the Employer & Communications Team so that we can help you through the process and make sure you retain access to historical payroll information.
TUPEs & New Academies - Please do not complete the leaver spreadsheet if members are leaving your employment and transferring to another employer under TUPE. Follow the process outlined on our website instead.
Useful Links
Peninsula Pensions Employers' Pages
LGPS regulations and guidance
Fund Investments
LGPS National Website
Previous editions of Pensions Line
Employer Meetings and Focus Sessions
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