For employers not yet using Monthly Data Collection (MDC) it’s important that we receive a completed Certificate of Re-employment for those employees who have remained in or returned to pensionable employment after taking Age or Premature retirement.  This is a separate exercise, which is required in addition to service and salary information for the Annual Service Return.

Where the salary is known for full-time and regular part-time members we require the Certificate of Re-employment from the start of the Scheme financial year, or as soon as a member returns to employment. If there’s a change in circumstances, i.e. a pay rise /pay decrease or the salary information is different to the information provided on the Certificate of Re-employment, we’ll require a new certificate. For part-time irregular members, where their earnings are not known until the end of the year, you’ll need to send in the certificate as soon as possible at the start of the next financial year.

If we’ve not received a certificate for 2016/17 please can you complete and return this as soon as possible. Without it we’ll have to suspend the member’s pension as we’re not able to determine if they’ve exceeded their earnings limit.

For employers using MDC a Certificate of Re-employment is only required from the member in the following circumstances:

• if they’re nearing or have exceeded their earnings limit; or
• where they’ve multiple contracts with a single employer and choose to opt-out for one or more of these contracts

In these cases, we’ll contact them directly to let them know what they need to do and we’ll also keep you informed via the Employer Portal.

Important

If there’s a certificate in your Task Manager on the Portal you need to complete it and return it to us.