Teacher Pension - reducing hours — MoneySavingExpert Forum Good evening - first time post! I'm a UK teacher with 9 years experience Next year I go onto UPS3, along with a head of dept TLR I became a teacher in 2014, so my pension will come under the average salary scheme, with my best average over 3 years in the last 10 I think I'm 54 and looking to retire at 62-65 years old
Optimising Teachers pension - MoneySavingExpert Forum Teachers pension online indicates I can purchase a maximum £8500 a year of pension for a lump sum of £84000 if I have read it correctly Perhaps I have misunderstood, but this isn't a great rate of return
Teacher’s pension salary of reference? - MoneySavingExpert Forum Does anyone know where I can find the salary of reference for a teacher? on the Teachers pensions website it says it can be found in the ‘Award papers’, what the heck are award papers? I’ve sorted my own pension but I’m now trying to get my head around my wife’s before she takes phased retirement in a years time It’s a good job that we’ve got a year as pensions are complicated
Average teacher pension £10k. . . . — MoneySavingExpert Forum I hear this quoted now on most news broadcasts can someone explain this figure? How long do you work before retiring? What is the average salary at retirement? Is there a lump sum? Is it a final salary scheme? just curious as to how they arrive at this figure, perhaps an explanation might get more people on their side
USS vs TPS University Pension advice needed - MoneySavingExpert Forum The comparison with the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS), in which university lecturers in the post-92 sector are enrolled, is the most striking As the green line indicates, a 40-year-old post-92 lecturer earning £40k is promised a pension of £1050 per annum in exchange for the same 9 8% member contribution as a USS member
Teachers Pension - working beyond 60 - MoneySavingExpert Forum Hello I am a teacher and about to turn 60! I have some years in the final salary scheme and also in the career average scheme I am still working full-time, but have not been in a TPS school since 2014
Teacher Pension Query - MoneySavingExpert Forum Currently my Teachers Pension benefit statement states that my total annual pension amount is: £14,906 made up of the ‘60th final salary’ arrangement amount: £4,621 and the ‘Career Average Salary’ arrangement amount of £10,284 Total death grant £227,196 in service and Total annual family benefit: £5,589