Automatic pension re-enrolment April 2022

March 8, 2022

Every three years employers must assess and enroll certain colleagues who have left the pension schemes back into them. This is known as re-enrolment. Employees who opted out of Trust pension schemes more than 12 months prior to Friday 1 April 2022 (Trust’s staging date or re-enrolment date) and are aged 22 and up to state pension age must be re-assessed for eligibility and re-enrolled on the staging date by law.

Note: Colleagues who are not eligible to re-enrol into the NHS Pension Scheme will be re-assessed to be enrolled into NEST the alternative pension scheme.

You can opt out by completing the application to leave the NHS Pension Scheme (SD502) form which is available to download and print from the NHS Pensions website –   www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-pensions.

To opt out of NEST please put the request in writing to the pensions department.

Any requests or forms sent before Friday 1 April will not be accepted.