Pension Scheme Members who have submitted missing certificates from November 2024 onwards
If you are a GP who has received a letter from NHS Pensions advising your Remediable Pension Savings Statement (RPSS) cannot be produced because your pension record is not fully up to date, please follow the steps below:
If you have previously identified the gaps in your record and have submitted the missing certificates to us between November 2024 and 31 March 2025, you do not need to do anything right now.
We will process the forms that you have submitted and will be in touch with you as soon as possible to confirm if we have been able to bring your record up to date.
Every year at this time, we experience a high volume of submissions that require processing after the 28 February end of year deadline.
By the end of June 2025, we expect to complete an initial review of all Type 1 and Type 2 certificates that were received by the end of March 2025. We will keep you informed if this timescale needs to be extended.
Please wait for our team to contact you and do not send any further queries - this will avoid duplication which slows down processing.
Pension Scheme Members who have not submitted missing certificates
If you are not sure what the gaps are in your record and have not submitted missing certificates to us between November and March, here are the steps to follow:
(i) Log into PCSE Online* and go to the Pensions area. Click Type 1 or Type 2 tile, then click the Listing Screen tile and click search. You will see a list of certificates and their statuses.
(ii) Check the list of certificates to identify which years from 2015/16 onwards that you were a Type 1 and / or Type 2 practitioner in, that are not showing as having approved certificates.
Remember: if you changed from salaried to partner during a pension year you need to complete both types of certificate, and if you were a partner at multiple practices you need a certificate for each one.
(iii) Submit your missing certificates for pension years 2015/16 up to 2022/23 on PCSE Online. If you are unable to submit on PCSE Online, then you need to download the forms for the relevant years from the NHS Pensions website and submit via the PCSE Contact us form.
Remember: you can check the contributions PCSE have on record for you by clicking on the Employee Contribution Statement on PCSE Online, select the relevant pension year, then click Search.
(iv) If you need to submit certificates for even older years (pre 2015/16), download the appropriate amnesty form for Type 2, or the forms for the relevant years for Type 1 from the NHS Pensions website and submit via the PCSE Contact us form.
(v) Note: if you still need to submit your 2023/24 form, you need to download the form from the NHS Pensions website and submit it via the PCSE Contact us form or for the Type 2, you can wait until 16 May when it will be available to submit on PCSE Online.
Certificates submitted from 1 April onwards, in response to the letter received from NHS Pensions, will be processed as soon as possible.
Please be aware this is an unexpected volume over and above the expected workload that follows 28 February end of year deadline. It is likely to be July or August before you hear from us.
You should wait for our team to contact you once we have processed the forms you submit, and we ask that you do not send any further queries, to avoid duplication, as this will slow down processing.
* If you have any issues logging into PCSE Online, please click here for assistance on how to reset your password and other common themes.