If you’re a retired teacher who took up a role as part of the National Tutoring Programme, it’s unlikely you’ll have your teacher’s pension abated as employment as a tutor or academic mentor wouldn’t be an eligible employment. Abatement is not applied where another employment is undertaken that isn’t pensionable in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

• If your tutoring involves teaching, even on a ‘one-to-one’ basis, it’ll be considered as part of the abatement assessment, provided you’re employed by a Teachers’ Pension Scheme participating employer and hence taken to be in additional service after retirement (re-employment)
• If your teaching employment is "agency employment", it won’t be pensionable in the Scheme
• The type of work will also impact on whether it’s teaching or not. If your tutoring work isn’t teaching but is an educational support role akin to a teaching assistant, it won’t be covered by the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, but would instead be pensionable under the LGPS regulations.
• If you’re a member with a Final Salary pension awarded on grounds of Age and Premature retirement and are re-employed in an eligible employment by a participating employer, your individual pension will need to be assessed for abatement. If you’ve a combination of Final Salary and Career Average pension, the Career Average pension will be included in the re-employment calculation, but only the Final Salary element is subject to possible abatement