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Implementation of 2025 Local Government NJC pay award

6 August 2025

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. Find out what you need to tell us to recalculate their benefits.

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We’ve launched a new online retirement estimates form

2 July 2025

Our new online retirement estimates form is now live. You can request an estimate for ill-health, flexible and redundancy or efficiency retirements.

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Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is now required for i-Connect users

13 June 2025

We’re rolling out multi-factor authentication (MFA) for i-Connect, to help keep the data you share with us safer. 

All employers will be using MFA for i-Connect by the end of July 2025.

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