Pension Service

Pension services for schools and academies

Remove the administration headache of auto enrolment, pension contributions and filing. Pensions is an area where complicated rules and ever-changing legislation can make it difficult for schools and academies to keep on top of compliance.

As education specialists, we have the expertise to understand the complexities surrounding Teacher’s Pension (TP) and Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) regulations and reporting requirements. Our pension service for schools takes on the administrative workload for you,

Peace of mind that we’ve got it covered

We can handle both your auto-enrolment and pension reporting. We have experience working with contractual pension schemes and statutory pension’s schemes.

Education pensions are extremely complex but our pension team are on hand to deliver a streamlines service, including the filing of paperwork for starts, leavers, contract changes, contracts and returns.

We are able to pick up the pension process from where payroll processing ends, handling all data submissions, monthly and annual returns as well as dealing with any resulting queries.

Our pension services for schools and academies include:

Processing of pension contributions through payroll
Payment to appropriate provider
Completion of monthly returns for Teachers and Local Government Pensions
Completion of annual service and contribution returns for each scheme

Our Pension Service also provides the interface between you and the pension scheme / local authority (non Academies) ensuring all necessary changes are processed.

This includes:

New starter and leaver notifications
Change of employee details including contracts / names / addresses
Service history calculation / queries
Maternity / Paternity reporting and adjustments

Auto Enrolment adds additional requirements for employers that we include in our Pensions Service

Assess and, where necessary, auto enrol employees each period
Process employees opting in and out of pension and ceasing contributions
Provide you with an employee status report each period
Employee communications (via letter or ePayslips)

Driving innovation in our pension service

Our in-house pension, innovation and IT development teams working closely together. Our Innovation Team are tasked with looking for ways to make improvements and increase efficiency, the work with the pension administrators improved. Our IT developers then use technology to help achieve these efficiencies.

We have invested in creating automated systems, driven by AI that simplify the data validation process and automatically upload the data to the pension fund overnight. The automated process then helps us to capture and data queries that come back from the pension scheme.

Call 03331 128000 or complete our online quote request form

A voice to be heard in the education pension sector

We have a dedicated pension team who work closely with Teachers’ Pension (TP) and Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS). They spend time with pension scheme providers to understand their needs and participate in engagement groups helping to define better processes and service delivery.

We are also present at meetings attended by the Department for Education and/or The Pension Regulator ensuring we are at the forefront of pension reform changes and can feed back this knowledge to the development of our systems to ensure they are up-to-date and complaint with the most recent, and future pension requirements.

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