NHS Pensioner Newsletter - March 2025
Welcome to the first ever edition of our newsletter for NHS pensioner scheme members.
This newsletter is all about you and your pension. Whether you're curious about your benefits or want to stay in the loop on recent changes, we have you covered.
We’d also like to gather more information about your pension journey and your thoughts about the SPPA, so please share your views in our new annual member survey.
Thanks again for everything you do. We at the SPPA are immensely proud to serve the people who serve Scotland.
2015 Remedy
The 2015 Remedy is a key area of interest for many of our members. If you are eligible for the 2015 Remedy, you will be invited to choose which of the benefits you would like to take for the remedy period – from the legacy scheme (final salary) or the reformed (CARE) scheme.
The SPPA will provide you with a choice letter known as a Remediable Service Statement, or RSS for short, which will provide you with information about your options. You can stay up to date on progress by visiting our website where you will find updated information on delivery dates for RSS. SPPA Look out for a Remedy edition later in the month.
2025 annual pension increase
The increase to your pension will be 1.7%, which will be applied to your pension from 7 April 2025. A P60 for the financial year 2024/25 will be available to you on our Online services from May 2025.
You can read more about Annual pension Increase on our website
Staying connected
Our online portals
You can view your pension information (including your P60 and monthly payslips) and update your personal details if you have a change of circumstances on our online portal.
Make an enquiry
If you want to contact us with a pension query, please use the SPPA’s new webform to do this. Using webform ensures that we have all the information we need to deal with your query and get it to the correct team so that we can respond as quickly as possible with what you need. Make an enquiry.
Member engagement survey
We’re on a mission to better understand and support our members. Please take ten minutes to fill out our engagement survey. It covers topics such as how you feel about your pension and finances, and the type of information you’d like to get from us.