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* Department for Work & Pensions * HM Revenue & Customs Guidance TRUSTEES OF CONTRACTED-OUT SCHEMES: IMPACT OF THE END OF CONTRACTING-OUT FROM 6 APRIL 2016 Updated 19 July 2016
CONTENTS * 1. What has happened? * 2. What this means * 3. Further information Print this page © Crown copyright 2016 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-state-pension-information-for-employers-and-trustees-with-open-contracted-out-defined-benefit-pension-schemes/trustees Important information
for trustees 1. WHAT HAS HAPPENED? The State Pension has changed for people who reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016. This change will help people clearly understand what they will get
from their State Pension to help them plan for retirement. If an employee is a member of a salary-related workplace pension, they are likely to have been ‘contracted-out’ of the additional
State Pension. People who are contracted-out, and their employers, will have paid National Insurance contributions at a lower rate (known as the ‘National Insurance rebate’). Three-quarters
of people reaching State Pension age in the 1st 2 decades of the new State Pension will have been contracted-out at some point. The new State Pension has replaced the basic and additional
State Pension for people who reach State Pension age from 6 April 2016. Contracting-out and the contracted-out National Insurance rebate ended on that date. 2. WHAT THIS MEANS As a result,
using powers in the Pensions Act 2014 private sector employers sponsoring these schemes may make limited, unilateral changes to members’ future benefits and contributions to help offset the
increase in their National Insurance contributions. His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will stop tracking which schemes hold individuals’ contracted-out benefits but will, until
December 2018, work with Trustees to reconcile scheme memberships. Commencing December 2018, HMRC will provide members with details of their contracted-out scheme memberships. Trustees have
until December 2018 to reconcile scheme membership and ensure that contracted-out data, for example the amount of the Guaranteed Minimum Pension, matches HMRC data. 3. FURTHER INFORMATION
Find out more about the new state pension for employers and trustees with open contracted-out defined benefit schemes and by reading the Countdown Bulletin. Back to top