Transferring from another scheme

When you join the teachers’ scheme you can transfer your pension credit from a previous scheme provided that:

• the previous scheme meets HMRC (formerly known as the Inland Revenue) requirements; and
• you apply for a transfer within one year of entering pensionable teaching service.

The sum of money offered as a transfer value from your previous scheme does not guarantee you the same amount of service in the NITPS as you had in your previous scheme.

Transfers from the teachers’ schemes for Scotland and England and Wales

We have a special arrangement with these schemes which means that service credit transferred from them gives you exactly the same amount of service in the teachers’ scheme for Northern Ireland as you had with them. We will accept transfers from these schemes any time up to retirement.