Request

Please could you tell me how many NHS pension members have applied for Partial Retirement since 1 October 2023? Please provide a figure for each calendar month

Response

The data is included in the table below:

Oct-23
1,215

Nov-23
613

Dec-23
442

Jan-24
590

Feb-24
217

Mar-24
86

Apr-24
103

We have considered the ‘date of application’ to be the date on which the member is applying to claim their pension benefits from and when benefits become payable. This is referred to as ‘the payable date’. It is not the date the award was completed or the date that the first payment was made.

The data provided in the table above is for both completed and ongoing Partial Retirement applications. If an application is rejected or withdrawn, as it can be throughout the Partial Retirement application process, it would then be removed from the above figures as there is no reportable information.

As of 2 January 2024, there are 369 applications still to process, that are eligible for Partial Retirement, but as these applications have not yet been processed, we cannot confirm the type of pension benefits that have been applied for.