If you return to pensionable employment within the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, even if you decide not to make pension contributions, we need to know. This is because the Teachers’ Pensions regulations state that the combination of your pension and any contributable salary in the tax year you’re re-employed can’t exceed your index linked ‘salary of reference’.

The salary of reference is the highest rate of salary used in the calculation of your average salary, indexed to the tax year of re-employment.

Employers provide your service information to us monthly. This means you’ll only need to complete a Certificate of Re-employment if you’re notified by us.

If you’re informed that you need to complete a form, you can do this through My Pension Online. Failure to complete this form, if requested, could result in an overpayment of pension which will need to be repaid.

A Certificate of Re-Employment doesn’t apply if you’re in receipt of Phased, Early Retirement (Actuarially Adjusted) or career average benefits, unless you’re also in receipt of Age, Premature Retirement, Phased Final (Age) or ‘Additional Service After Retirement’ (ASAR) benefits based on final salary service.

Read our ‘Returning to work after claiming your benefits’ factsheet. (PDF, 71 KB) (This link opens in a new window)