Superannuation Royal Free hospital London

Windmillgirl

Hi

My 89 something mum has just realised that she paid a superannuation payment from her wages back in the late 1950's for about 4 years but the doesn't remember getting anything back from this. She would have been about 16-20 when paying this. Ive gone through the Gov. Website pensions tracking using the Royal Free hospital and contacted everyone I can including the NHS pension department but no joy, any other thoughts on how I can check up on this...it's so long ago!

JoeCrystal

It seems unlikely, considering that a refund is the only option if she leaves the service regardless of the length of the membership after some googling. (Pre-1972, unless the annual salary had reached £5k, it would be deferred by then.) I have a hard time finding information about what the rules are like with the NHS Superannuation, but there are also potentially two years waiting periods as well). I found this document, which details what changes to the NHS pension scheme throughout its history.

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/2018-01/NHS Pension Scheme Useful Dates-20180122-(V2).pdf

Silvertabby

It's very unlikely that your mum would have been allowed to join the pension scheme at 16, if at all.  If she did, say from 18, then she would have been given a refund of her contributions when she left with less than 10 years service.

Marcon

Disappointing that the NHS pension department didn't immediately explain to OP that his mother would not have had sufficient years of pensionable service to qualify for a 'deferred pension'. She would have needed at least 10 years of scheme membership (that didn't reduce to 5 years until 1972, long after she left), so it should have been very easy for them to explain that.

Windmillgirl

Thanks for everyone's assistance I'll now stop searching!