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The proposed Statutory Rule make amendments to the requirements relating to the administration and governance of occupational pension schemes.

Social security benefits, pensions and lump sum payments in Northern Ireland (NI) are generally maintained in parity with Great Britain (GB).

This Order specifies the percentage by which the guaranteed minimum pension element of an individual’s occupational pension entitlement is increased with effect from 6 April 2023 (a person could accrue a guaranteed minimum pension GMP) in a contracted-out occupational pe

The draft Regulations contain amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (NI) 2014 which will change the LGPS (NI) annual revaluation date from 1 April to 6 April.  This proposal will mitigate against the impact of high inflation on the LGPS (NI) revalu

The first proposed Statutory Rule, the Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 implements a new authorisation and supervisory regime for collective money purchase schemes a type of occupational pension scheme in whic

Memos contain further guidance on the interpretation of legislation to social security benefits and should be read in conjunction with the Decision Makers Guide.
 

When a person changes jobs they also leave their employer’s pension scheme.  An employee can ask to have their pension rights transferred to the new scheme.

This Statutory Rule is a purely technical order that provides for the revaluation of new State Pension scheme pension debits and credits that arise when a Pension Sharing Order is made by the courts where divorce proceedings commence from 6 April 2016. 

This Statutory Rule is a technical Order giving effect to a statutory requirement to specify the percentage that will be used to revalue the “protected payment” element of a new State pension for persons who reach State Pension age on or after 12 April 2022.

The Statutory Rule sets out the conditions that must be satisfied for the different ways that trustees or managers of occupational and personal pension schemes may permit a member of their scheme to use the cash equivalent value of, respectively, the member’s accrued rig

The Statutory Rule places administration and governance requirements on trustees of occupational defined contribution pension schemes, in particular to require trustees of certain DC pension schemes to disclose their investment returns and demonstrate that they are providing v

It is necessary to bring in amendments to the Local Government Pension Scheme in NI (LGPS (NI)) to remedy the discrimination identified in the Goodwin Ruling and the Walker Judgment.  The draft Regulations also contain proposals for minor miscellaneous policy changes and

These Regulations provide the technical details for one of the additional tests to the contribution notice regime, “the employer resources test”.  For example, they set out how the value of the resources of the employer is to be determined and calculated by th

The Pensions Act 2004 established, on a UK-wide basis, the Pensions Regulator (the ‘Regulator’) to protect the benefits of members of work-based pensions, reduce the risk of situations arising which may result in calls on the Pension Protection Fund and promote and

The amounts of the automatic enrolment and re-enrolment earnings trigger (the earnings level at which an employee must be automatically enrolled) and the qualifying earnings band (the earnings on which contributions must be paid) are set out in the Pensions ( No.2) Act (Northe

The administrative systems currently utilised by the Department in the production of official and National statistics.

Conditions of Entitlement | Assessment for PIP | Hospitals, Similar Institutions & Care Homes | Payability Exceptions | Transitional Provisions | Good Reason

A significant amount of research is published outside of the Department on issues which may be of interest to policy makers, and this widely-dispersed information can be time consuming to collate.

A significant amount of research is published outside of the Department on issues which may be of interest to policy makers, and this widely-dispersed information can be time consuming to collate.

These Regulations amend existing legislation to implement provisions of the European Union Directive (EU) 2016/2341 on the activities and supervision of institutions for occupational retirement provision (commonly known as “IORP II”) which relate to workplace pensi