Management Information Sheet
MRS Compensation Payments - further guidance
Printouts with staff details and amounts were sent, to those schools affected, by post on 24th June 2010.
The employees listed show potential MRS payments for the school. These would be in addition to those charged on the Period 3 download, as previously notified.
Guidance on individual circumstances and whether or not payments will be made are in the FAQ pages of the MRS website.
www.norfolk.gov.uk/mrs
and in particular
FAQs about MRS compensation payments
Q. Is someone who has left the County Council still entitled to payment of compensation?
A. Only if they have left between 01 April 2007 and 31 March 2010 on the grounds of:
Voluntary Retirement for the over 60s
After MRS was agreed, the County Council decided to extend the list of categories of leavers who are eligible for compensation to include those retiring voluntarily. So any employees who were continuously employed by Norfolk County Council from 31 March 2007, are over the age of 60, are a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme and are due a compensation payment, could choose to retire between 23 November 2009 (the date the collective agreement was formally signed) and 01 April 2010 (when MRS was implemented) and keep their right to compensation payments.
If an employee chose to retire before MRS was implemented their compensation payment will be subject to tax and national insurance in the normal way and will be reflected in their pension. If the employee chose to stay until implementation their compensation payment will have deductions made at the composite tax rate and will not be reflected in their pension.
If you have received a printout in the post, and have any queries that you cannot resolve by looking at the website, please contact your Finance Support Officer in the first instance.
The MRS team is currently dealing systematically with all queries that have been directed to them. Please note that they are trying to prioritise the queries and resolve them as quickly as possible.
NB Please note that, for those staff that have already received their compensation, the charges that were previously notified to you will appear on your period 03 salary download. This will include payments already made to staff that may have applied for a re-evaluation or have submitted an appeal. Any appeals or re-evaluations that result in regradings may lead to further compensation, which would become chargeable to school budgets at a later stage.
Also, as agreed by the Schools' Forum, for those staff that were employed elsewhere within the authority when they became eligible for compensation, the charge is a liability for their current employer i.e. if you currently employ someone that was awarded compensation for a previous employment at another school, your school is liable for the charge.
The employees listed show potential MRS payments for the school. These would be in addition to those charged on the Period 3 download, as previously notified.
Guidance on individual circumstances and whether or not payments will be made are in the FAQ pages of the MRS website.
www.norfolk.gov.uk/mrs
and in particular
FAQs about MRS compensation payments
Q. Is someone who has left the County Council still entitled to payment of compensation?
A. Only if they have left between 01 April 2007 and 31 March 2010 on the grounds of:
| retirement at age 65 or above | |
| health or Disability Related Dismissal | |
| redundancy | |
| employment of SEN Teaching Assistants ending once the child they support moves (and no further contract has been issued with another child) | |
| TUPE Transfer - responsibility for payment will depend on the detail of the TUPE agreement. Please contact your manager for clarification. | |
| an employee who dies in service between 01 April 2007 and implementation - their beneficiaries will be entitled to this payment. | |
| And see below…. |
Voluntary Retirement for the over 60s
After MRS was agreed, the County Council decided to extend the list of categories of leavers who are eligible for compensation to include those retiring voluntarily. So any employees who were continuously employed by Norfolk County Council from 31 March 2007, are over the age of 60, are a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme and are due a compensation payment, could choose to retire between 23 November 2009 (the date the collective agreement was formally signed) and 01 April 2010 (when MRS was implemented) and keep their right to compensation payments.
If an employee chose to retire before MRS was implemented their compensation payment will be subject to tax and national insurance in the normal way and will be reflected in their pension. If the employee chose to stay until implementation their compensation payment will have deductions made at the composite tax rate and will not be reflected in their pension.
If you have received a printout in the post, and have any queries that you cannot resolve by looking at the website, please contact your Finance Support Officer in the first instance.
The MRS team is currently dealing systematically with all queries that have been directed to them. Please note that they are trying to prioritise the queries and resolve them as quickly as possible.
NB Please note that, for those staff that have already received their compensation, the charges that were previously notified to you will appear on your period 03 salary download. This will include payments already made to staff that may have applied for a re-evaluation or have submitted an appeal. Any appeals or re-evaluations that result in regradings may lead to further compensation, which would become chargeable to school budgets at a later stage.
Also, as agreed by the Schools' Forum, for those staff that were employed elsewhere within the authority when they became eligible for compensation, the charge is a liability for their current employer i.e. if you currently employ someone that was awarded compensation for a previous employment at another school, your school is liable for the charge.