Fact sheet - Ill-health benefits and re-employment

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Re-employment by people in receipt of Ill-health retirement benefits (IHRB), Partial Incapacity Benefit (PIB) and Total Incapacity Benefit (TIB).

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 benefit:
  • if your application is received before 6 January 2007, you will be in receipt of IHRB.
  • if your application is received on or after 6 January 2007, you will be in receipt of (i) PIB only, or perhaps (ii) TIB in addition to PIB.

It is possible that your pension will cease if:

• You are in receipt of a PIB plus TIB and you take up gainful employment. Any gainful employment would cause a TIB to stop immediately. If you are in receipt of TIB and you want it to continue after taking up employment, you must provide acceptable medical evidence that you still meet the conditions for TIB.
• You are in receipt of a PIB and you take up employment as a teacher or in another educational capacity covered by the TPS.
• You are in receipt of IHRB and you retired on or after 1 April 1997 but before 31 December 2006, you are aged under 60 and you return to full or part-time teaching employment.
• You are in receipt of IHRB and you retired before 1 April 1997, you are aged under 60 and you return to full-time teaching employment.
• In other circumstances it may be necessary for the DCSF medical advisers to review your entitlement to the pension.

You must always notify TP of all teaching and non-teaching employment as this may affect your entitlement to continue to receive the pension.

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