Services offered 2012/13 - Sunderland Learning Hub

• The provision of information on request on all matters relating to the pension schemeincluding statutory changes to pension scheme regulations.• Compliance with statutory requirements and pension scheme changes andcommunication to scheme members.• Maintenance, completion and return of Annual Service Return.• Reconciliation and paying over of pension contributions• Ensuring that the provision of all information is in compliance with the timescales requiredby Audit Commission, Teachers Pension Scheme and the DfE .• The administration of member records for employees of all contracted customers• The provision of advice and support to the outside bodies contracted to the Authority onall matters relating to pensions.• Control, deduction and paying over of: Additional Voluntary Contributions and RegulationC2 benefits.• Completion of TPA returns in respect of part time elections and further employmentTeachers Enhanced PensionsNote: This payment was made by the Tyne & Wear Pension fund on behalf of this Authority up to31 March 2007 but it was deemed by HMRC to be an unauthorised payment and control of thesepayments was passed back to the original Authority. The payment is in relation to any additionalpension which could have been granted to retiring teachers, a facility which is not allowed underthe Teachers Pension Scheme and so must be paid locally.• Administer the payment of all teachers enhanced pension payments• The maintenance of the personal files for all of these pensioners• The calculation and payment of survivor benefits where a pensioner dies and themaintenance of that record.• Ensuring the full compliance of the various pension scheme regulations concerning thepayment and recording of teachers’ pensions.Special Payments• Interim or special payments to staff will be processed in accordance with internalprocedures and only in exceptional circumstances.• Emergency “on account” payments which have been made will be recovered from thenext salary payment due.Overpayment Recovery.• Overpayments in relation to former and current employees of the Academy will be writtento in order to arrange repayments terms via monthly salary or invoice.Financial Costing Reports• Financial Costing reports supplied post payroll• All deductions from Payroll and Pensions will be balanced to control accounts andpayments made to relevant bodies together with detailed analysis of those deductions.• Accounting and costing data reconciled to control totals, to ensure Payrollexpenditure/income is accounted for.Hardware/Software• The current Payroll system is run on a Sun Server.107