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Find out about the latest Pensions Increase and other key updates.
Public service pensions are increased annually by the same percentage as State Additional Pensions (the State Earnings Related Pension and the State Second Pension).
It’s applied in April and is based on the increase in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the 12 months to September of the previous year. The Pensions Increase to be applied is 6.7%, which will take effect from 8 April.
Increases may be proportioned if you took retirement benefits during the Scheme year and may be lower if you've a Guaranteed Minimum Pension and your State Pension Age was before 6 April 2016. This is because increases above 3% are paid by the State via increases to your State pension. For more information please take a look at our Pensions Increase FAQs.
We're currently in the process of contacting all retired members affected by Transitional Protection, if you haven’t heard from us yet, please be patient. We’ll be providing you with a Remediable Service Statement with your options. The choice you make will be retrospective and backdated to the point that payment of your pension benefits began.
If you’re unsure if you’re impacted by Transitional Protection, we’ve a range of resources including a decision tree, FAQs and videos to help you.
If you return to pensionable employment within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, even if you decide not to make pension contributions, we need to know. This is because the Teachers’ Pensions regulations state that the combination of your pension and any contributable salary in the tax year you’re re-employed can’t exceed your index linked ‘salary of reference’.
The salary of reference is the highest rate of salary used in the calculation of your average salary, indexed to the tax year of re-employment.Employers provide your service information to us monthly . This means you’ll only need to complete a Certificate of Re-employment if you’re notified by us.
If you’re informed that you need to complete a form, you can do this through My Pension Online. Failure to complete this form, if requested, could result in an overpayment of pension which will need to be repaid.Please note a Certificate of Re-Employment doesn’t apply if you’re in receipt of Phased, Early Retirement (Actuarially Adjusted) or career average benefits, unless you’re also in receipt of Age, Premature Retirement, Phased Final (Age) or ‘Additional Service After Retirement’ (ASAR) benefits based on final salary service.
Read our returning to work after claiming your benefits factsheet.
To ensure the correct pension is paid to you, it’s vital that we have your most up to date information on our records. This includes your bank details.
You'll need to ensure we've the correct PAYE name as well as the account number and sort code. In most cases this should match how your name appears on your bank card. The account (in most cases) should be in your name (or a joint account).
The only way you can update your bank details is by using My Pension Online. We’re unable to accept changes to your bank details via phone, secure message or the web chat/WhatsApp service.
Your tax code
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) tell us how much tax to take from your pension through your tax code. We’re unable to change your tax code unless we’ve been instructed to do so by HMRC. If you want to ask about your tax code or tax liability, please write to:
HM Revenue & Customs CustomerOperations PSAPO BOX 4000CardiffCF14 8HROr call: 0300 200 3300
You’ll need to quote your National Insurance number, PAYE reference and your Teachers’ Pensions Reference number, which can be found on your pension advice note.
Got a question?
You can contact us securely via secure chat or WhatsApp if you've got a question about your pension.
Our team are available between 9am – 4:20pm, Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays to answer your queries but you can leave a message at any time and they’ll get back to you.
Our WhatsApp number is 07545 932848 (Please note this number doesn’t allow phone calls).
You can find the secure chat icon on the right hand side of our website.
Please use My Pension Online to update us if you:
Need to change your personal details, including your address or bank or
Go into any teaching employment after claiming your pension.
Please contact us by phone (0345 606 6166) to inform us of any of the following (you must inform us immediately of any such change, to avoid an overpayment of pension which we'll need to recover):
If you’re in receipt of a spouse, civil partner or nominated financial dependent’s pension, which is wholly based on pensionable service prior to 1 January 2007 and you remarry, enter a civil partnership, or cohabit. This will end your continued entitlement to the pension.
If we pay your children a pension and they leave full-time education, they earn over £4,064 per annum or, they enter into a marriage or civil partnership.
If you’re the next of kin of a Teachers’ Pension Scheme member and the member dies
If you defer your State Pension (please provide confirmation of this from the Department for Work and Pensions).
Please contact us by post (Teachers Pensions, 11b Lingfield Point, Darlington, DL1 1AX) if:
If you need to change your bank or address details (if receiving a children’s or spousal pension) and you can't use MPO. Please include your name, address, National Insurance number and Teachers' Pensions reference on the letter. If you live overseas you will also need to supply a copy of photo ID.
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