A specialised statement showing your Annual Allowance tax position during the ‘remedy period’ for those affected by the ‘McCloud’ discrimination. As well as 2015/16 – 21/22, it also includes a pension savings statement for 22/23.
To: nhsbsa.pensionsmember@nhsbsa.nhs.uk Subject: Document request NHSP04 Dear NHS Pensions My details are as below. I am requesting a “Remedial Pensions Savings Statement”. Full Name: XXX XXXX Date of Birth: DD/MM/YYYY Address & postcode: XXX XXXX SD Number (this is on ESR payslips and documents from NHS pensions): 1234XXXX Please provide the following documents in the formats requested below: NHSP04 (PDF) Please note if you have not already produced my RPSS, please can you let me know by return the expected timescale and the reason for delay - for example are you waiting for data from my employer, or do you need to complete a manual calculation? Furthermore, if you believe I am not eligible to receive an automatic RPSS, please take this as a formal ‘on demand’ request for an RPSS or, alternatively, ‘on demand’ requests for Pension Savings Statements covering the same period. Kind regards Dr. XXXOpen in my email app →
An RPSS is produced for those eligible for the “McCloud” age discrimination remedy: you were in the NHS (or another public service) pension scheme on or before 31 March 2012 and had pensionable service between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022, with no break in service of 5 years or more. If you are not eligible for this you cannot request an RPSS. An RPSS is produced as standard if you exceeded the general annual allowance in any year of the remedy period or in 22/23, or if you requested an on demand statement during the remedy. NHSBSA will only be able to email you this once they have completed your RPSS calculations.
Unhelpfully, more recent versions of the RPSS no longer show your old pension input amounts alongside the new ones, which makes it harder to see whether your pension input amounts have gone up or down.
If you have not processed your RPSS yet, we have partnered with AISMA accountants Forvis Mazars to do it for you: together we have helped over 2,000 members with McCloud claims, with an average refund of over £14,000 of overpaid annual allowance tax. Their fee can be reimbursed through the NHS cost claim back scheme, so in effect it is free. Forvis Mazars McCloud pension support ↗