Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

SH PEN SAC

English answer:

Stakeholder Pension Sacrifice

Added to glossary by Taña Dalglish
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2013-06-13 18:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Jun 10, 2013 15:05
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English term

SH PEN SAC

English Social Sciences Human Resources payslip
This is a mysterious cluster I have just come across on an English payslip.
I will be grateful if somebody could offer their educated guesses :-)

All I know it's an amount deducted, although listed under EARNINGS.
:-|
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Jun 13, 2013 19:46: Taña Dalglish Created KOG entry

Discussion

cquest (asker) Jun 10, 2013:
Thanks for your input and time, Charles.
Charles Davis Jun 10, 2013:
Taña deserves the points, no question. Taña: will you please be good and post "stakeholder pension sacrifice" as an answer? It is correct, I am almost sure. I'm going to withdraw my answer and put the information as a reference. You worked out "sacrifice" before me (though I got there independently), but you also worked out "stakeholder", which I think is correct too, and I now think my suggestion of "shared" is not right.

I was thrown off the track because I thought you couldn't do a salary sacrifice on a stakeholder pension, but you can, and plenty of people apparently do, when you look. So I think that's almost certainly it.
cquest (asker) Jun 10, 2013:
Charles & Tana Thank you very much. The mystery's solved :-) SH PEN - stakeholder pension SAC - sacrifice. But how am I to give you points if there is no SH OPT ;-)
cquest (asker) Jun 10, 2013:
I guess. Wouldn't be surprised if the client didn't know himself ;-)
Yvonne Gallagher Jun 10, 2013:
if the client is coming to collect you can ask them directly! SH sometimes means Share or Shareholder but could also relate to Social/Health fund so really need to ask
cquest (asker) Jun 10, 2013:
Maybe a kind of contribution to an employee pension scheme? // But then, why is it listed under 'earnings', not 'deductions' (with NIC and tax)?
cquest (asker) Jun 10, 2013:
Not so easy I have no contact details, just this payslip to be translated for a customer who will come for it tomorrow :-(
Tony M Jun 10, 2013:
PEN = pension?

Might be simplest just to phone the company in question!

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Stakeholder Pension Sacrifice

As per discussions.

HTH!

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Note added at 3 days4 hrs (2013-06-13 19:46:28 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you cquest.
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis
21 mins
Thank you again for your encouragement. Un abrazo!
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Reference comments

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Reference:

Refs.

As others have said, "PEN" = pension. Still trying to work out SH.
I found a few references to "Sacrifice".

SH = ??
PEN = pension
SAC = sacrifice?

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/question/salary-sa...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1233676

Not sure if this fits your context.

HTH!

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Thanks. Some other references which may shed light on the "SH" bit!

May be Stakeholder (SH or S/H)? But I am really grasping at straws here!

Stakeholder pension and salary sacrifice | AccountingWEB
www.accountingweb.co.uk › Any Answers‎
Jul 23, 2003 – Employer contributions are being made into a stakeholder pension by way of ... http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=115993&d=... ... Any pay slip is always done after any salary sacrifice.

[PDF]
Remuneration (Salary/Bonus) Sacrifice - JLT
www.jltgroup.com/content/s2/jlt-eb-practical-guide-to-remun...
salary sacrifice instead of making individual contributions to a pension scheme. The employer's .... However, the payslip can be part of the evidence that the remuneration .... sacrifice guidance (http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/ ... personal and stakeholder pensions, employees pay contributions net of basic rate tax and have ...
Note from asker:
Thanks for the SAC bit! It seems you've hit the nail on the head with this one.
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Yvonne Gallagher : well done!
49 mins
Thank you so much Gallagy. Cheers!
agree Charles Davis : Taña: "stakeholder pension sacrifice" is the answer. Please post it!
1 hr
You are too kind! Un abrazo.
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Reference:

stakeholder pension sacrifice

Here are some bits of my answer, minus the bit about "shared", which I don't think is right. I think SH is stakeholder, as Taña first suggested.

Pension sacrifice, or "pension salary sacrifice" in full, is explained here:

"Salary sacrifice involves employees' salaries being reduced by the amount of their pension contributions and those contributions instead being paid directly by the employer. The lower level of pay means national insurance contributions are reduced both.
Head of flexible benefits consulting Kim Honess says: “There is a certain critical mass at which implementing pension salary sacrifice is a no-brainer given the savings it delivers."
http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/news/salary-sacrifice-reaps-...

Salary sacrifice is a kind of legal scam, really. It's a way of reducing NI contributions (and perhaps also tax). There are other kinds of salary sacrifice, but pension salary sacrifice, involving pension contributions seems to be particularly common these days, so much so that "salary sacrifice" alone often means that.

It's becoming so widespread, apparently, that I'm very confident that "PEN SAC" refers to this. I'm much less confident about "shared", because there are hardly any references to "shared pension/salary sacrifice", but I can't find anything else that fits, and "shared" does make sense, in that the benefits are shared between employer and employee: both gain in terms of reduced NI contributions.

"Here's a comment on a forum (evidently British judging by the reference to NI):

"i never normally bother opening my payslips, as i know what they say. but this one i did and i've just noted that the pension bit is actually called "PENSION SACRIFICE". humph, they should put that on the tax and N.I. contributions as well"
http://b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post976540?highlight=answ...

Stakeholder pensions (a UK phenomenon introduced in 2001):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_pension_scheme

"Salary sacrifice allows basic rate tax paying employees to increase pension payments by up to 31% at no financial cost. This increase is paid for purely by savings made in Income Tax and National Insurance. In November 2004 the Treasury gave a green light to salary sacrifice that will cost the Chancellor more than £1 billion a year in lost taxes. [...]
Only employees in a money purchase such as group personal or stakeholder pensions or employees with no pension arrangement are considered. However, it is possible for employees with a final salary pension to use Salary Sacrifice."
http://www.sharingpensions.co.uk/corporate_benefits_salary.h...
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