Closed consultation The draft Health and Social Care Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Summary

The Amendment Regulations:
• Clarify how claimants moving on to Employment and Support Allowance should be assessed
• Permit the money purchase AVC arrangements to pay lifetime allowance excess lump sums
• Make consequential changes to scheme rules to accommodate the introduction of shared parental leave and the abolition of contracting-out

Documents

• HSC Pension Scheme Consultation document Microsoft Word (38 KB)
• HSC Pension Scheme statutory rule Adobe PDF (172 KB)

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Consultation description

This draft rule proposes technical amendments to the regulations that provide the rules for the HSC Pension Scheme, the supplementary Additional Voluntary Contribution arrangements and the Injury Benefits Scheme.

In particular the following regulations are subject to amendment:-

• The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995
• The Health and Social Care (Pension Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008
• The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
• The Health and Social Care Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
• The Health and Personal Social Services (Superannuation) (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
• The Health and Personal Social Services (Injury Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Ways to respond

Consultation closed — responses are no longer being accepted.