Calculation of Benefits

Qualifying service for benefit

Providing you satisfy the necessary age requirements you qualify for benefits by completing either:

Two years of pensionable service commencing after 5 April 1988; or

A total of two years pensionable service either before or after 6 April 1988 providing you were employed in pensionable service on 6 April 1988; or

A total of five years service undertaken at any time.

NOTE: Current Added Years count towards the qualifying period for benefit whereas Past Added Years do not.

If you are employed in part-time pensionable service, the whole period of your part-time employment counts towards the minimum qualifying period. For example, if you work half time for a year this would count as one year for qualification purposes but only as 6 months for the calculation of your pensionable service.

Pensionable service

Pensionable service for calculation of benefits includes:

Periods of temporary, part-time and permanent service for which you have paid superannuation contributions;

Pensionable service transferred from previous pensionable employment to the Teachers’ Superannuation Scheme;

Any past or current added years purchased.

Qualifying service for benefit

Pensionable service