Please contact us by phone (0345 606 6166) to inform us of any of the following:

• If you’re in receipt of a spouse, civil partner or nominated financial dependent’s pension, which is wholly based on pensionable service prior to 1 January 2007 and you remarry, enter a civil partnership, or cohabit. This will end your continued entitlement to the pension
• If we pay your children a pension and they leave full-time education, they earn over £4,133 per annum or, they enter a marriage or civil partnership
• If you’re the next of kin of a Teachers’ Pension Scheme member and the member dies
• If you defer your State Pension (please provide confirmation of this from the Department for Work and Pensions)
• If you’re in receipt of a spouse, civil partner or nominated financial dependent’s pension, which is wholly based on pensionable service prior to 1 January 2007 and you remarry, enter a civil partnership, or cohabit. This will end your continued entitlement to the pension

Please contact us by post (Teachers Pensions, 11b Lingfield Point, Darlington, DL1 1AX) if:

• If you need to change your bank or address details (if receiving a children’s or spousal pension) and you can't use MPO. Please include your name, address, National Insurance number and Teachers' Pensions reference on the letter. If you live overseas, you will also need to supply a copy of photo ID.

Please use My Pension Online to update us if you:

• Need to change your personal details, including your address or bank or
• Go into any teaching employment after claiming your pension.

You must inform us immediately of any such change, to avoid an overpayment of pension which we'll need to recover.