Archive

Our news archive is updated regularly with all the information you need to know about the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

The importance of a withdrawal (w) indicator

We’d like to remind you of the importance of including a ‘w’ indicator to signify when a member has either left your employment or has left teaching completely.

27/07/2021 |

Determining the contributions tier for part-time members

When calculating the tier to deduct contributions for part-time members of staff, please use their earnings within that month, rather than the full-time equivalent salary.

27/07/2021 |

Changes to the delegation process

To ensure we continually improve our data security, we will be introducing a change to how we can provide access to the Employer Portal for additional members of staff and third-party payroll providers.

27/07/2021 |

Phased withdrawal for Independent Schools

As previously mentioned, a consultation exercise to amend participation rules to allow for the phased withdrawal of independent schools (that might otherwise leave the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) for all members), closed on Tuesday 1 June 2021.

27/07/2021 |

Webinar joining instructions and links

We’ve received queries from employers who’ve registered to attend one of our webinar training sessions but haven’t received an email containing joining instructions.

27/07/2021 |

Using the correct Data Centre

When submitting your monthly data on the Employer Portal, please ensure that you’re using the correct Data Centre for each establishment that you manage.

27/07/2021 |

Submitting files for Monthly Contributions Reconciliation (MCR) as a Multi Academy Trust (MAT)

If you’re part of a MAT and have on-boarded to MCR, you have the choice to either send separate monthly files for each academy, along with individual payments.

27/07/2021 |

Employer Drop-in session

We’ll be holding our next monthly Employer drop-in session on 18 August.

27/07/2021 |

Government consultation published seeking views

Government consultation published seeking views

27/07/2021 |

Retirement application cut-off date

As you can imagine, September is the most popular time of year for members to retire and take their pension.

27/07/2021 |

Member print

We’re making changes to the Member Search and Print

23/07/2021 |

The Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill

HM Treasury announced the Public Service Pension Scheme Consultation Response in February 2021.

22/07/2021 |

Goodwin judgment update – Consultation communications

The government has issued its response regarding proposed amendments to Teachers’ Pension Scheme regulations.

08/07/2021 |

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08/07/2021 |