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Supporting teacher wellbeing

18/03/2022 Racheal Smith

In a survey by Education Support, 62% of education professionals described themselves as stressed. While teaching has always been a profession that saps emotional and psychological energy, the pandemi[...]

New videos resource from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme

11/03/2022 Racheal Smith

While one of the best ways to manage your teacher pension is with independent financial advice, you can learn more from the recently released Teachers’ Pension Scheme members’ video collection. [...]

Transitional Protection Changes

04/03/2022 Racheal Smith

The McCloud judgement has meant that pensions have needed to change to prevent unfairness in applying rules. From April 1st 2022 The Transitional Protection changes are a consequence of this jud[...]

A Family-Friendly Pension Scheme

24/02/2022 Racheal Smith

When you are in teaching, you will always balance the commitments at home with your desire to do the best job at work. While being a teacher incurs many compromises on your family life, the Teacher Pe[...]

Making best use of your lump sum

17/02/2022 Racheal Smith

When you retire, the Teacher Pension Scheme offer you the option of converting up to 25% of your benefits into a lump sum payment. For every £1 you give up in benefits, you receive £12 in a lump sum[...]

Why do you need an independent financial advisor?

10/02/2022 Racheal Smith

It might not make sense immediately to contact an independent financial advisor as a teacher. Your salary is fixed to national levels, and your pension payments are taken automatically. You are aware [...]

A new challenge in retirement

03/02/2022 Racheal Smith

Working day in day out in the classroom is an activity for the young and energetic. While older teachers bring much wisdom to the classroom, it is common for the levels of fatigue to push people to a [...]

New Year New You: investing in the future

28/01/2022 Racheal Smith

As the New Year comes around, we are all still considering the same stresses. The pandemic has made us all feel a little uncertain about what the future might bring, and it makes us all wonder how we [...]

New Year New You: reducing responsibility

21/01/2022 Racheal Smith

As the New Year comes around and teaching feels as hard as it has ever been, you might be considering taking on less responsibility. You may have a senior leadership or middle management post and want[...]

New Year New You: Career Change

14/01/2022 Racheal Smith

As the New Year bell tolls, you might think that 2022 is the year that you change your career. Teaching has always been a challenging career, and the pandemic has cranked up the pressure significantly[...]

New Year New You: Early Retirement

06/01/2022 Racheal Smith

As we head into 2022, we all begin to consider how to make the most of this fresh start. While 2021 might have been a challenging year for many, 2022 offers a gleam of possibility to become more of wh[...]

Protecting the family: maximising benefits

29/12/2021 Racheal Smith

When we view the teacher’s pension in the round, the benefits far outstrip our retirement. We pay an amount each month for the sake of a far-off future, and it is difficult to appreciate this too mu[...]

Protecting the family: new additions

22/12/2021 Racheal Smith

When Christmas approaches, we tend to reassess a little more. We become reflective, exploring what we have and what we would like to shape in our future. It could be that you are planning to extend yo[...]

Protecting the family: our dependents

15/12/2021 Racheal Smith

We may think of our pension as our nest egg for retirement, but we may not see it as a form of insurance to protect our dependents. No one likes to think that we might die before our children are g[...]

Protecting the family: our life partner

08/12/2021 Racheal Smith

December is the time of year we become more conscious of our family and our gratitude that they are in our lives. We are scouting for gifts to celebrate the connection, and the television is full of H[...]

Ill Health and Teaching: Benefits and Re-employment

25/11/2021 Racheal Smith

So far, we have focused on what happens if you leave teaching due to ill-health. It might be that you are fortunate enough to get better and feel inclined to get back into the classroom. If you are [...]

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