Archive

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

October 2019

Optima Health replaces OH Assist

We've been informed by the Department for Education (DfE) that Optima Health have taken over the responsibility to provide medical advisory services to support our Ill-health Retirement applications from OH Assist.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Changes to member search

Working with the Department for Education, we’re continually reviewing and strengthening our data privacy controls. As a result the Member Search combination of Date of Birth and Surname is no longer available.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Ratio queries

We’re currently seeing a rise in Refund and Maternity ratio queries and to try and help you with these queries, we’ve included a couple of examples below of what you need to do in these instances.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Contributions Monthly Breakdown Template

To ensure the monthly breakdown programme works effectively, the contributions form you submit to us contains macros.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Member queries and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

We’d like to remind you that due to GDPR, when sending a query to us regarding a member, you should only provide one piece of personal data about that member.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Monthly Contributions Reconciliation (MCR) pilot group

We’ve received a fantastic response from those of you who want to join the MCR pilot group and due to this, the option to register to participate in the pilot group will be closing at the end of November 2019.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Monthly Contributions Reconciliation (MCR) contributions calculations

We’ve received a few questions regarding contribution calculation methods, which have been regarding ‘When Paid’ and ‘When Earned’ calculations.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Elections confirmation

Can we ask you to continuously check the Employer Portal to make sure that any elections are confirmed by you without delay.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Employer Portal - User Management Notice

From 31 October we’ll be introducing new ways to help ensure that Employer Portal accounts are kept relevant and up to date.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Recent rise in 38a errors

We’ve recently mentioned that we’ve seen a rise in the number of 38a errors we’re receiving when you submit your MDC data.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Future Data Cleanse Activity

We’ve previously told you that we’d be completing a future data cleanse activity and that we’d provide a further update once there’d been any advancements with the project. We can confirm that the development work is progressing well for this exercise, which will be used to rectify any service and/or salary gaps dating back to April 2014.

28/10/2019 | Employer News

Branding survey

We’re reviewing our current communications and branding to help improve the way we engage with members, employers and stakeholders and we’d like to hear from as many of you as possible. It would be really helpful if you could complete our short questionnaire, which will ask you to look at new ideas alongside what we do now.

28/10/2019 | Employer News