Employers' Guide

 



Section 5 - Leavers (teacher leaving current employment)

WEB TV - Module 2 Leaving Pensionable employment

1. Definition of a leaver

A leaver is a person who is no longer in pensionable employment.

A leaver is not a person who:

  • changes from full-time to part-time employment;
  • moves between establishments within the same employer;
  • retires;
  • dies in service; or
  • opts out of the scheme

Where a teacher on pensionable maternity, paternity, parental or adoption leave does not return to duty, pensionable employment will be considered to have ceased at the end of the paid maternity or statutory leave.  Further information about absence can be found in Section 4 of this Guide.

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2. Notifying Teachers' Pensions

You must notify TP immediately any of your teaching staff leaving your employment. You must do this at the time of the event by completing the STU TR8 template.

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3. Completing form TR8

Download

1) To download a TR8, click on STU Download on the left hand side. The following screen will appear: STU login screen

















 

2) Click on the appropriate document that you wish to download. Then click on “Save” when the message box appears this will save the document to your computer - take note of where you specify to save the document (e.g. My Documents). Note: if you do not get the option to select save, right click the document file name on STU and select “Save Target As” this will then display a save dialogue box. Once this appears save the file to the desired location.

You must only use the templates currently held on STU to send information to us. These files must be saved in a CSV format. If files are uploaded in an incorrect format, these cannot be processed automatically and will be returned to you to resubmit.

Upload

1) To upload a completed TR8, click on “STU Upload”. The following screen will appear: STU login screen


















 

2) Input a description for the file to be uploaded then click on browse to search for the desired file. If you are uploading an annual return the file name should be e.g. TSC0000000, TCHINF00000 or SCHEDPRINT0000000. Note: if you are uploading a TR8, the file name must start with “TR8”, and not contain commas.

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4. Giving information to the leaver

Teachers leaving employment, and who are not retiring or moving immediately to a new post which could be pensionable under the TPS, must be given the fact sheet Leaving Pensionable Employment. This leaflet contains important information about the options open to them, some of which must be exercised within time limits.

Teachers who decide to opt out of the TPS must submit an election to opt out of the scheme via My Pension Online the secure member area of the website.

You should inform the teacher that more information can be found on the website and that they should keep TP informed through the secure member area of the website of any address or name changes.

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