Employer News

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Our news pages are updated regularly with all the information you need to know about the Teachers' Pension Scheme.

Contribution bands increase

With effect from 1 April 2023 the salary bands for contribution rates for members will increase by 10.1%

21/02/2023 |

Pensions Increase and career average revaluation

Find out about the changes from April 2023.

21/02/2023 |

Goodwin - Completion of cases

We’ve now completed all cases that were identified, ahead of schedule.

15/02/2023 |

Knowing your responsibilities

There’s plenty of support available to help you understand your responsibilities whilst administering the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

30/01/2023 |

Join us to find out how our operational teams work

Join our Employer drop-in session to find out how our operational teams work.

30/01/2023 |

Finance update

Please read our finance update.

30/01/2023 |

Ensure members understand the impact to their pension

We’d like to make you aware of important information regarding your employees’ pensions and industrial action.

30/01/2023 |

Independent web pages

We’ve been working alongside our Employer Support team to provide further information for independent schools that are new to the Scheme.

30/01/2023 |

Address line update

We'd like to remind you that when updating an address, it must not be go over a certain number of lines.

30/01/2023 |

Notifying us of a change in a members role for MCR

In January’s bulletin we advised how to notify us of a change in a member’s role for MCR.

30/01/2023 |

Employer Portal log in

Please read our Employer Portal log in reminder, to ensure you don't get locked out of your account.

30/01/2023 |

Automatic enrolment campaign

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has recently launched a new automatic enrolment campaign with the aim to reduce errors in employer ongoing duties.

30/01/2023 |

Notifying us of a change in a member's role for MCR

Recently we’ve noticed some employers have been submitting TR28 files to inform us of a member’s change in role for a period of time post on-boarding to MCR

11/01/2023 |

New resource to help you understand Transitional Protection

It’s important for you to understand the changes being introduced as part of Transitional Protection and whether your members are affected by these changes.

03/01/2023 |

Importance of matching your MCR submission to your payment

It’s essential that your MCR submission matches your payment. If this isn’t the case we will be unable to allocate your payment.

03/01/2023 |

Finance update

Please take a look at our latest update from Finance, including notification of arrears, prior years arrears and contributions and EOYC

03/01/2023 |

Employer drop-in sessions

We’d like to say thank you to all of you who joined us on an employer drop-in session last year. It’s been a great experience talking with you and taking a deep dive into topics you requested to learn more about.

03/01/2023 |

Annual Allowance tax charge declaration on Self-Assessment tax return

The pensions standard Annual Allowance (AA) is £40,000 for the 2021/22 tax year. If members exceeded the AA, and they don’t have any/enough carry-forward available from the previous three years to offset against the excess, they’ll be liable to an AA charge.

03/01/2023 |

Training

We’d like to say thank you to all of you who took part in our training events last year. We successfully delivered over 300 webinars and thanks to your support, the sessions were a great success throughout 2022. We hope to carry this on into 2023.

03/01/2023 |

2022 Roundup

Last year was very busy here at Teachers’ Pensions, we thought it would be helpful to give you a roundup of a few of our achievements

03/01/2023 |

MCR surgery

Book onto our next MCR surgery which will be held on 26 January 2023.

07/12/2022 |

Help us improve your experience

We want to make sure that our website works for everyone and that includes you!

06/12/2022 |

Transitional Protection where we are and whats coming up in 2023

As we go into 2023 we wanted to give you a summary of where we are and what to expect regarding Transitional Protection changes

06/12/2022 |

Updated MCR webpages and guides

We’ve recently updated our MCR webpages and guides to help you with your submissions.

05/12/2022 |

Seasonal opening times

View our seasonal opening times.

05/12/2022 |

New Year retirement resources

Our helpful New Year retirement resources for your members that are wanting to retire in January

05/12/2022 |

Finance Update

Read out finance update for December to help with your submissions.

05/12/2022 |

Additional payments to increase benefits drop in session

Find out more about our additional payments to increase benefits drop-in session in December.

05/12/2022 |

Multi Academy Trust and Academy quarterly stakeholder meetings

The next quarterly Multi-Academy Trust and Academy stakeholder meeting is taking place on Tuesday 13 December at 11.00am.

05/12/2022 |

Member newsletter

We’ve recently sent active members of the Scheme a newsletter regarding their pension.

05/12/2022 |

Forms

Looking for a Form? Our forms page has everything you'll need to get started.

Forms

Calculators

See how members pensions are built and explore the available options.

Calculators

FAQ's

Find the answers with our range of Frequently Asked Questions.

FAQs