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To Steve Barclay, Health Secretary

I worked in the NHS for 14 months from October 2019 to December 2020. I helped run checks for nurses and healthcare assistants leading the recruitment team at a major NHS trust in the north of England. I helped staff the Nightingale hospital and gave up countless hours day and night to get enough staff in to deal with Covid, including working nights and weekends whilst trying to keep my team safe and motivated. I have since found out that despite making pension contributions, as I have under two years of contributions I do not get a pension. I had expected to have a very small NHS pension, matched by my employer, and invested as all pensions are to give me the best shot at a decent retirement. I have since found out that I am not eligible for a pension and that they will refund me the money I paid in. This means I lose the contributions made by my employer, the years it should have been invested, and have to pay tax on the amount refunded. None of this was explained when I joined the scheme or when my contract ended. This means that for those months I was effectively not paying into a pension and having deductions made from my pay, unable to invest that money elsewhere it is now worth less than is 2019/2020, and I have missed out on the employer contributions. This is grossly unfair and puts me further behind my contemporaries who do have the pension investment and contributions for that time.

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Either provision of an NHS pension or refund the value of the pot, not just employee contributions.

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