Northern Ireland: Cycle to Work Scheme - First scheme of its kind in the NI civil service

Written by Ian Congreave - Filed under: Northern Ireland on September 29th, 2009

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The Northern Ireland Executive announced on 21 September that a “cycle to work” salary sacrifice scheme is being introduced by the Department for Regional Development. The scheme takes advantage of the tax and NICs relief on the loan to staff of cycles for commuting journeys. It is already running in many Northern Ireland public and private sector organisations but is the first of its kind for the civil service in Northern Ireland. If the pilot scheme is successful, the benefits will be rolled-out across the entire civil service in 2010.