To ask if any other nhs workers have heard they may end up WORSE OFF after the pay rise?.

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My DH is in a flap. He found out today that due to an increase in pension contributions following his pay rise in September, he may end up with a negative sum and there owe his trust money. How can this be correct?? He's at the bottom of band 5 (it will affect band 3/5/8a apparently), and is due to moving up to the next pension threshold and due to workers being paid back pay from April. His Trust have mentioned helping staff with plans on how to pay money back that it owed
It makes no sense to me, but is obviously worrying, as this is not the time for us to have less coming in to the household,

Can anyone explain this to me?

That's just shit. Is the -200 due to having to pay back pay too (so should improve) or permanent?

If I understand this right, previous contributions were based on full time salary even if you worked part-time.

This meant that if a full time salary for a role was, for example, £25k a year then you paid the percentage for that salary even if you only worked 3 days a week and earned £15k, whereas someone earning the same in a lower band but working full time for £15k a year (and therefore the same pension) paid a lower contribution

I have not yet seen my payslip to work it all out as is all electronic and not on my phone.
My understanding is that my pension contribution went up same time as payrise so in effect I have been over paid since April so they backdated what I owed in pension.

I think next month it all changes again and the fact that I am only contacted for 34 hours might benefit me slightly. It is still pretty depressing though as work is so hard at present and I work so many hours unpaid. Maybe I should just go home on time, take a lunch break, and work to rule!