Contracting Out of Additional State Pension
From 6 April 2016, employees of contracted-out defined benefit (DB) schemes will automatically be brought back into the State Pension scheme and will no longer be able to use a contracted-out salary related (COSR) occupational pension scheme to contract out of the State Scheme. Employees will, depending on their level of earnings, start to accrue entitlement to the new State Pension instead.
National Insurance Contributions
Eligibility for the contracted-out National Insurance Contributions (NICs) rebate of 3.4% for employers and 1.4% for employees will also cease from this date.
This will bring with it some changes in what and how you report to HMRC:
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from 6 April 2016: You will not be able to use your Contracted-out Salary Related (COSR) occupational pension scheme to contract employees out of the new State Pension scheme
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there will no longer be a requirement to report the Employers Contracting-out Number (ECON) and Scheme Contracted-out Number (SCON) details on Full Payment Submission (FPS) for tax years commencing 6 April 2016 and onwards
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there will no longer be a requirement to separate the National Insurance (NI) earnings between the Primary Threshold (PT) and Upper Accrual Point (UAP) & UAP to Upper Earnings Limit (UEL)
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there will be a requirement to report NI earnings between the PT to UEL as there was prior to 2009
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there will be one less column to complete on forms P11 and P60. These forms will be updated in due course and available on the
Basic PAYE Tools or can be ordered from the Employer order-line.
All HMRC systems will be amended to reflect these changes and the UAP data field will be removed from the FPS and Earlier Year Update (EYU).
All payroll software will need to be amended.
National Insurance Categories from 6 April 2016
Contracted-out National Insurance tables/ categories D, E, I, K, L, N, O and V will be replaced by Standard National Insurance tables/categories A, B, J, M, P, Q, R, T, Y and Z
