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2025
| July 2025 | This edition includes: Employer Reports – Devon Assurance Partnership – Reminder for TUPE’s – Employer Role Training – Returning Officers |
| June 2025 | This edition includes: Recent Employer Interface Audit – McCloud Member Webinar – Neonatal Care Leave and Pay – Term-time Membership – Employer Reports |
| May 2025 | This edition includes: Approved Independent Registered Medical Practitioner – Annual Allowance 24/25 – Employer Estimates – Employer Role Training – Prudential AVC Payroll Forum |
| May 2025 – Special Edition | This edition includes: Prudential AVC Payroll Forum |
| May 2025 – Special Edition | This edition includes: An introduction to our new Employer and Communications Lead – Gareth Shackler |
| April 2025 | This edition includes: Tier 1 Ill-health and Long Covid – New Form to Complete for Leavers Paying AVC’s – Employer Focus Sessions – Prudential Communications |
| April 2025 – Special Edition | This edition includes: A Farewell from our Employer and Communications Lead – Shirley Cuthbert |
| March 2025 | This edition includes: AVC Contribution Submissions – New process for revised leaver forms – DCC Financial Systems Change – McCloud Remedy Update – 25/26 Employee Contribution Bands – Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure (IDRP) – Employer Engagement – Annual Returns Reminder – National Minimum Pension Increase Age – Employer Role Training |
| February 2025 | This edition includes: Employer Reports – AVC Admin – Microsoft Teams – Employer Role Training Dates – DCC Financial Systems Change |
| January 2025 | This edition includes: An update on employer reports – Annual returns 24/25 – HR Authorisation form update – Redundancy pensions information – Employer data audit – 25/26 Employee contribution bands |
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| December 2024 | This Edition Includes: Christmas wishes – Employer meetings feedback – Prudential submission of AVC payments and payroll files – Outsourcing of services and TUPE staff – Devon fund new financial system – Local government association training events |
| November 2024 | This Edition Includes: Information about the employer meetings held earlier this month – Process for submitting revised leaver forms – Leavers information for casual employee’s – Devon fund employer payment of invoices information – Normal minimum pension age (NMPA) increase information – Teachers excess service update – Christmas closing times |
| October 2024 – Special | This Edition Includes: Information about our Annual Employer Pensions Meetings in November 2024. |
| October 2024 | This Edition Includes: A thanks to our Employers – Annual Employer Pensions Admin Meetings – November 2024 – Internal Dispute Resolution Procedure (IDRP) – EAS5 Form Update – DEVON FUND ONLY – Employer Pensions Discretions Policy – LGA Scheme Member Website – Tools and Calculators – TUPE and Outsourcing Services – Local Government Association Training available |
| 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 Estimates |
| May 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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| 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 Reminder | This 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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