Teachers' Pension Scheme

The Teachers' Pensions Scheme (TPS) no longer sends annual benefit statements, so make sure that you have signed up to 'My Pension Online' to check your statement.

Delays in implementing the McCloud remedy, March 2025

The roll out of the Transitional Protection Remedy (McCloud) should have been completed by April 2025. By this point all eligible members of the scheme who are retiring should be provided with a Remediable Service Statement (RSS) and offered a choice of legacy or reform benefits for the remedy period. Those who were eligible and retired prior to October 2023 should also have received a Remediable Service Statement (RSS) to make a retrospective choice about the remedy period. For several reasons none of the schemes in the UK has been able to deliver this by the deadline. You can find further information about the delayed timescales for England and Wales here and further information about Scotland here.

All eligible members should receive their choices by the end of 2025, although there may yet be further delays for some complex cases. UCU will continue to monitor this and provide further updates.

Update on the Teachers' Pension Scheme - Autumn 2023

Our latest update covers the changes that will be made from 1 October 2023 to all public service pension schemes including the Teachers' Pension Schemes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

These changes are happening to remove the age discriminatory impact of schemes' transitional protection arrangements, often referred to as the 'McCloud Remedy'.

You can read the full update here and watch the webinar below which explains the changes.

The UK government made changes to all public sector pension schemes, including TPS, from 1 April 2022. These changes removed the age discrimination found by the courts in the way in which the 2015 CARE schemes were introduced. Please click here for our previous information on the background to these changes, our webinar, FAQs and presentation here.