UK. NHS misses deadline for staff pension statements
The NHS missed its three-month deadline for issuing pension statements to more than 4,000 staff this year as the service struggles to cope with requests from doctors worried about tax bills.
Between January and September, the NHS pension scheme received 15,200 requests from hospital consultants for an annual allowance statement, which is needed to assess their tax position.
But one in four of those requests — or 3,824 — were not completed within the target timeframe, according to a freedom of information request response from the NHS Business Services Authority.
Last year the scheme received 5,473 requests for statements from consultants, with all but 74 completed within the time limit.
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