There are changes being introduced to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, in relation to members who are impacted by the Transitional Protection remedy.  
You may recall we informed you that we’ll be directly contacting employers who’ve affected employees who hold excess service, which can’t be rolled back into the final salary Teachers’ Pension Scheme. This is because it isn’t pensionable in that scheme.

Who will we contact?
We’ll be reaching out to those employer groups where we’ve determined that members would be considered as eligible for LGPS linked service. This excludes independent schools, studio schools, function providers and some higher education establishments (those who were established pre 1992). If we don’t contact you, but you think you’ve employees who are affected, then please get in touch.

How will we contact you?
We’ll send you an inbox message in your Employer Portal to advise there’s a file for you to review any affected employees who worked in your establishment during the remedy period (1 April 2015 – 31 March 2022). 
You’ll need to review the service data provided and update this information for all employees in the file and then return to us. Please do not remove any members from this file. 
If there’s additional employees who should be included, these should be added. We’ll then take the next steps to validate the information we’ve received from you. If there are any discrepancies, we’ll need to come back to you to resolve these before we can progress.
Once this is complete next steps will be: 

• Employers will need to contact their LGPS fund to advise them of the service that needs to be transferred to their fund. This will follow the standard LGPS enrolment process and allow the relevant funds to request the contributions for any LGPS linked service from Teachers’ Pensions
• For service that’s not LGPS linked, this will allow us to take alternative action.

Next steps
We’re aiming to contact affected employers between January and July 2024, and wanted to give you prior notice before this starts. From receiving your file to review, you’ll have 150 days to provide the information to us. 
We’ll advise when the emails have been circulated through our employer bulletin.
To understand the changes in relation to the Local Government Pension Scheme and the different members affected, please visit the bespoke pages on our website.