Fact sheet - Ill-health benefits and re-employment

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This leaflet is for members who are in receipt of Ill-health retirement benefits and have or are considering taking up employment.

Your entitlement to continue to receive a pension from the TPS will depend on:

• whether you return to teaching employment or non-teaching employment;
• the date your retirement benefits were put into payment;
• the type of ill-health benefit in payment;
• if your health has improved sufficiently to return to employment.

Your pension will be revised or stopped if:

• You are in receipt of an enhanced pension and you take up gainful employment. Any gainful employment would cause your enhancement to stop immediately. If you want your enhancement to continue after taking up employment, you must provide acceptable medical evidence that you still meet the conditions for your enhancement.
• You are in receipt of an unenhanced pension and you take up employment as a teacher or in another educational capacity covered by the TPS.
• You are in receipt of Ill-Health retirement benefits and you retired on or after 1 April 1997 but before 1 January 2007, you are aged under 60 and you return to full or part-time teaching employment.
• You are in receipt of Ill-Health retirement benefits and you retired before 1 April 1997, you are aged under 60 and you return to teaching employment (including short periods of supply teaching).

In other circumstances it may be necessary for the DfE medical advisors to review your entitlement to the pension.

You must always notify TP in writing of all teaching and non-teaching employment as this may affect your entitlement to continue to receive the pension. All overpayments will be recovered.

Where there is any difference between the legislation governing the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and the information in this fact sheet the legislation will apply.