NHS pension application

[Hobbit]

Towards the end of last year, as I gathered in the details of several pension schemes before retiring, I sent off my application form to trigger my NHS pension. All the other pensions were in place and paying out by the time I retired late January. After chasing, and chasing I finally get a reply via email to say a letter was sent 2 days ago advising I can't trigger the pension yet.

The NHS do a very good, though convoluted, website with oodles of information, including the 2 pensions schemes operated by the NHS. Guess what, I can apply for my pension when I reach 55. If I'd still been employed by the NHS I could have triggered it at 50.

I'm pretty sure that being 59 means I'm over 55.

You wouldn't believe all the stupidity that's been in the emails they've sent. "What's your address?"(4 times they've asked for it!) Strange that the address they used to return my birth cert and marriage licence got the docs back to me ok. "What's you date of birth?" Surely having had sight of my birth cert you know my DOB!

I've had the pleasure of dealing with 2 depts in the last few months. HMRC and NHS Pensions. I can't believe people are paid a wage for the total incompetence they display.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Welcome to the dinosaur that is the civil service. I have to smile every time a politician lectures business about productivity. Seriously 😵😱

 

[chrisd]

I did a deal with the NHS for them to rent car park space where I work, I got them to write the contract as they were desperate and I didn't have enough time. They started using it last August and I managed to get the 1st payment in March after being asked to fill in loads of questions online, all of which they already knew the answers to but only found they needed to know again once I'd answered the last question. It did speed things up a tad when I said to the eejit in payments that I was going to stop their use of the parking if i didn't receive payment within 14 days.

 

[Tashyboy]

I am now collecting my four mining pensions. With another to come in four years then my state pension. If I get memory loss I am screwed.
Anyway, three of them pensions are in the pension protection fund. It recently changed hands re the admin side. So in essence on of my monthly pensions, admin thought i was getting weekly. It got to a stage where I was just about paying Mormon tax than I was actually getting. Try having half an hour on the phone with someone trying to explain how they have screwed up. The defining moment when the penny drops starts when they " oh".
Thats only half of it, then you have to ring the tax office, coz to save a few bob, The Tories have shut down all the local tax offices. Talking to the tax man is a royal PITA. Now I have started getting my last two pensions I have to ring them again in a couple of weeks, oh joy of joys.

 

[Tashyboy]

I cannot believe it, I have just had the postman drop one letter off for me. From her majesty's tax man. Explaining all me Tax codes for the next year.

Thay are all correct 😳. Lordy flippin Lordy. Good people them lot are in the tax office. Don't anyone on here be slagging knew Bessie pals off. 😂

 

[jim8flog]

I cannot believe it, I have just had the postman drop one letter off for me. From her majesty's tax man. Explaining all me Tax codes for the next year.

Thay are all correct . Lordy flippin Lordy. Good people them lot are in the tax office. Don't anyone on here be slagging knew Bessie pals off. 

I get three different sources of income. Every year the Inland Revenue keep changing the order of who gets what tax allowance and every year I have to write in to get them to change it back again.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Mrs Hogie put in her application for her NHS pension a couple of weeks back. She expects it to take at least three months - quite possibly four - to be processed. So far so good

 

[williamalex1]

I got my full local authority pension at 52 and retired after 30 years service, they added 10 years taking me to the maximum, :whoo: the best move i've ever made.

 

[Crazyface]

Towards the end of last year, as I gathered in the details of several pension schemes before retiring, I sent off my application form to trigger my NHS pension. All the other pensions were in place and paying out by the time I retired late January. After chasing, and chasing I finally get a reply via email to say a letter was sent 2 days ago advising I can't trigger the pension yet.

The NHS do a very good, though convoluted, website with oodles of information, including the 2 pensions schemes operated by the NHS. Guess what, I can apply for my pension when I reach 55. If I'd still been employed by the NHS I could have triggered it at 50.

I'm pretty sure that being 59 means I'm over 55.

You wouldn't believe all the stupidity that's been in the emails they've sent. "What's your address?"(4 times they've asked for it!) Strange that the address they used to return my birth cert and marriage licence got the docs back to me ok. "What's you date of birth?" Surely having had sight of my birth cert you know my DOB!

I've had the pleasure of dealing with 2 depts in the last few months. HMRC and NHS Pensions. I can't believe people are paid a wage for the total incompetence they display.

Incompetence is rife in the NHS

 

[Crazyface]

I cannot believe it, I have just had the postman drop one letter off for me. From her majesty's tax man. Explaining all me Tax codes for the next year.

Thay are all correct 😳. Lordy flippin Lordy. Good people them lot are in the tax office. Don't anyone on here be slagging knew Bessie pals off. 😂

The tax office is wonderful. I get a rebate almost every year!!!!