Payroll and Pensions

The LBHF Payroll Team provides a full payroll service to each of the Council’s departments as well as to the Council’s pensioners, Housing Management Services and Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College.

Useful payroll links are:
 Contact details for all employee payroll queries
 Information on payroll procedures
 Contact details for the employee’s tax office dealing with queries about your personal income tax allowance, income tax self-assessment return and other personal tax matters. 
 Link to the H.M. Revenue & Customs website www.hmrc.gov.uk (formerly known as the ‘Inland Revenue’) for general guidance on Pay As You Earn Income Tax, National Insurance, Tax Credits, Student Loans and related personal taxation matters.
 Link to Give As You Earn Payroll Giving website www.workplacegiving-uk.com for more information about how to make tax-efficient donations to charity through the Council's payroll.

Pensions Team
The LBHF Pensions Team oversees the work done by the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) to administer the Council’s pension scheme to its contributors, and to ensure the pensions payroll is run every month.

Useful pensions links are:
Contact details for all LBHF pensioners payroll queries. 
Contact details for the LBHF pensioners tax office dealing with queries about your personal income tax allowance, income tax self-assessment return and other personal tax matters.
Link to the London Pensions Fund Authority www.lpfa.org.uk , which administers the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) on behalf of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.  For specific details about the LGPS, go to www.lgps.org.uk

Pension scheme guides and other useful pension documents
 Local Government Pension Scheme at Hammersmith & Fulham Council

 Increasing Your Local Government Pension Benefits
 Policy Statement (Feb 2007) of the LBHF Pensions Fund Investment Panel, effective from 1 February 2007.
 New-look Local Government Pension Scheme proposed from 1 April 2008

Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs) for LBHF pension scheme contributors as administered by Zurich Assurance Limited
 Welcome Letter to Zurich Group AVC Pension Plan

 Key Features of the Zurich Group AVC Pension Plan
 Lifestyle Investment Option
 Changes to the Group AVC Scheme at Hammersmith & Fulham

 Guide to accessing your Zurich AVC pension details on-line

Other pensions-related bodies and links
 The national website for members of the Local Government Pension Scheme  www.lgps.org.uk contains information about the regulations governing the scheme and details of any proposed changes to the scheme.
 Queries about teachers pensions are deal with by the government’s Teachers Pensions organisation at www.teacherspensions.co.uk
 Queries about State and Old Age pensions are dealt with by the government’s Department for Work and Pensions at www.dwp.gov.uk