Reflections on reaching for retirement
60+ and still teaching?
The end of the final salary scheme on 1 April 2022 presents you with an opportunity to take your final salary pension, continue working AND get paid more.
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Or is it…
The final salary scheme can no longer be added to after March 2022 but that doesn’t mean the end…your future salaries will still be used in working out the pension – so make sure you know how to get the most out of that!
When can I get my hands on the pension?
In this video I look at the confusion surrounding the changes to the state pension age and the minimum ages that you can access your teachers’ pension
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3032
The start of the legislation needed to implement the remedy to the age discrimination caused by the transition from Final Salary to Career Average pension schemes.
If you are over 60 and haven’t already started taking your pension you would suffer from abatement if you took it all. However, taking phased retirement benefits does not lead to abatement.
You could work a day less and get paid more than you are now.
Contracted Out
Up until 2016 Teachers were ‘contracted out’ of the additional state pension and so many do NOT qualify for the full NEW state pension…I explain.
If you retire at your Normal Pension Age and carry on, or return to, working then your pension may be abated (cut!).
Here I explain why and how to avoid it.
You want more?…
There are three ways to put more into your pension and to get more out of it. This presentation looks at the relative costs of Faster Accrual compared to Additional Pension.
Retiring next year, or in 30 years – the pay freeze could bomb your pension.
Fix it for £1
My abridged version of the Government’s response to the consultation on the removal of age discrimination in the public sector pension schemes.
For my own reference but I’m posting it as others may also find it useful. I have reduced it to the main points, focusing solely on the actions the Government is proposing to take.
I removed details on who responded to the consultation and the summaries of their contributions to boil it down to just what is proposed will happen without so much of the why it will happen.
The Full Proposal (72 pages)
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