As we’ve previously mentioned, the withdrawal indicator is important to signify when a member has left your employment or left teaching completely. If the ‘w’ indicator isn’t correctly inputted, it can impact a member’s pension benefits.

The ‘w’ indicator should be provided to confirm when one of the following situations occurs:

• When a member is leaving an LA maintained school to take up a position with another maintained school within the same LA
• When a member is leaving an academy under a MAT to take up a position with another academy within the same MAT
• When a member is leaving the employer
• When a member changes job roles and that change requires a new contract of employment to be provided
• When an LA maintained school leaves the LA to become an academy
• When an academy becomes part of a MAT and the MAT becomes the employer
• When an academy moves from one MAT to another.