Changes to the forms used for Registering a Pension Scheme

In April the APSS100 and APSS100A forms for registering a pension scheme will change.

In addition, there will be an upgrade to Pensions Schemes Online taking place shortly to support the changes to existing processes and new processes described in newsletter 24. Pension Schemes Online will therefore not be available from 6:00am on Wednesday 4 April until 6:00am on Friday 6 April.

In order to minimise the problems of changing over from the old versions of the APSS100 and APSS100A to the new ones, there will be a brief period when the forms won’t be available, either as a paper version to download or for completion using Pension Schemes Online, and there are time limits by which PSS needs to receive the forms in order to process them.

For old-style ‘paper’ registrations, PSS can only guarantee to process these if they are received no later than Tuesday 3 April.

For those using Pension Schemes Online, as the service will not be available from 06.00AM on 4 April, you will not be able to complete any registrations using Pension Schemes Online from then until 6 April, when the new-style form will be available.

The new-style APSS100 and APSS100A paper registration forms will be available on the Internet from 2 April. Although it will be possible to download a copy of the new-style form for submission in a paper format from 2 April, we will not be able to process paper registrations between 3 April and 5 April. [Registrations for schemes after 2 April can be made using Pension Schemes Online until 6:00am 4 April

If you start registering a pension scheme before 4 April, you must submit the completed registration to us before the system is closed down for the upgrade, otherwise the information you have entered will be lost and you will have to enter the information again when the system is available.