Following the announcement that the Local Government Services National Joint Council (NJC) 2025/26 pay award has been agreed and back dated to 1 April 2025, any members who have left or retired since 1 April 2025 will need their benefits recalculated using the revised pensionable pay.

Current employees (Active members)

Monthly online return (OLR)

No action is required. The backdated pay will be reported using your monthly return. 

Monthly CSV returns - Do not load this file yourself

To ensure the file upload does not cause any duplicate member records please send your i-Connect extract for the payroll period the pay award is applied using GlobalScape secure data transfer. We will then load the extract file on your behalf. 

Leavers from 1 April 2025

Employees that have retired since 1 April 2025

You should apply the pay award and complete a new Leaver form with the revised pay information and return the form to us securely using i-Connect document upload, selecting the option ‘Leaver – revise Leaver Information’.

For other leavers 

To recalculate benefits we need to know:

• If you have applied the pay award to non-retirement cases.
• The circumstances you will be applying the back dated pay award.
• Any amended pensionable pay.

Do not send this information via your i-Connect return.

Please complete the NJC Pay Award data template and return to us using GlobalScape secure data transfer

Download the NJC Pay Award data template (XLSX, 9.69KB)