Online monthly returns

The Employees page lists all the employees you have in the scheme. If you need to record a new starter, click the Add New Starter button to set them up on i-Connect and our system.

Useful Information

• You can delete leavers and new starters created in error by selecting the Remove button in the Action column.

Use this page to input the pay period values for contributions and pensionable pay.  

Useful Information

• Enter zeros in the 50/50 Section column if the member is in the main section of the scheme, and vice versa.
• You can’t enter positive values into both the Main Section and 50/50 Section contribution columns in the same pay period.
• When you complete the next pay period’s online return, the previous month's values are carried forward. You only need to change the pay and contributions for any employee whose values have changed.
• Save the data by selecting the Continue button. The data won’t be saved until you do this.

Use this page to input the Year to Date (YTD) values for pensionable pay and contributions for the current scheme year. The scheme year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

The pay period values from the previous page are carried forward to prepopulate the page. 

Useful Information

• On subsequent returns, i-Connect uses the YTD values and the This Pay Period figures to calculate the YTD values for the current month. Change these values only if the YTD values calculated by i-Connect differ from your payroll values.
• If you amend the YTD values for contributions and pay, the values will revert to the original values if you exit the return before completion or navigate backwards to the Employee Contributions & Pay – This Period page.

Use this page to enter any additional contributions your employees are paying into the LGPS, such as:

• AVCs – any additional voluntary contributions to the in-house scheme provider.
• Add Conts/ARCs – any Added Years or Additional Regular Contributions (ARCs).
• EE-APC – any employee-only Additional Pension Contributions (APCs).
• SC-APC – any shared-cost Additional Pension Contributions (APCs).

Useful Information

• Update the Financial Tax Year totals each pay period.

Use this page to inform the fund of changes to employees' working hours, such as, a part-time employee moving to full-time hours or vice versa; or a part-time employee who changes their contractual hours.

If the member is full-time, simply enter an effective date and leave the Part Time Hours and Full (Whole) Time Hours fields blank.

Useful Information

• If the employee works term time only, and not 52 weeks of the year, adjust their Part Time Hours value. For example, an employee working 32 hours a week, for only 44 weeks a year, must have their part-time hours calculated as follows: 32/52 x 44 = 27.08/37.00

This page shows a summary of all employees on the online return.

Select the Edit button if you need to change the personal details of an employee. This will display the Edit Employee Personal Details and Edit Employee Contact Details page.

Use this page to inform us of any employees who have left your employment or have opted out of the LGPS.

To process a leaver, enter the date they left your organisation in the Date Left Scheme field and a reason for leaving in the Select Reason and Enter Reason fields. 

The Enter Reason field is mandatory and can be populated by selecting a reason from the Select Reason drop-down list.

To process an opt out, enter the date they opted out of the LGPS in the Date Left Scheme field and tick the Opt Out? checkbox.

Opt out and leaver forms should be submitted where applicable.

The Completion page is the final page of the online return.

When you select Complete, you are confirming that you have submitted all the payroll information into i-Connect for the pay period. The Latest Upload page with an Online Return successfully submitted message will be displayed.

Note that no data will be sent to your pension fund’s target system until you select Proceed on the Latest Upload page.