Teacher pension
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Teacher pension
Myself and my husband have both been teaching in the UK for 15 years and paying into the Teachers Pension FUnd, now that we have emigrated to Aus ahtw is the best thing to do with our UK pension, can we cash it in? Leave it there and claim it when we turn 65 or do we need to move it to a pension fund over here?
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Re: Teacher pension
Myself and my husband have both been teaching in the UK for 15 years and paying into the Teachers Pension FUnd, now that we have emigrated to Aus ahtw is the best thing to do with our UK pension, can we cash it in? Leave it there and claim it when we turn 65 or do we need to move it to a pension fund over here?
2. You can leave it there and claim when you reach retirement age (This is actually 60 not 65 as you seem to think. And you can choose to access retirement benefits from age 55).
3. You can move it to a pension fund in Aus.
Bear in mind that the Teachers' Pension Fund is a defined benefit scheme. As a government pension scheme, the pension you will get from it is index-linked. And it has many more benefits - too many to list here (ask the administrator to send you an updated booklet - they revised it from 1 Jan 2007).
With 15 years' membership in the scheme, you'd be mad to transfer it into an Australian superannuation fund and leave yourself open to the uncertainties of the stock market! Leave it where it is!!!
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Re: Teacher pension
A thread has been going for a while under the teacher section on pensions have a look its quite interesting
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Re: Teacher pension
O.k. Look at how many years' contributions he has. The OP had 15 years. If your OH has up to five years, I'd say look a bit more at the pros and cons of leaving it in the UK vs transferring it over (transferring it is likely to be the better bet).
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
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Re: Teacher pension
O.k. Look at how many years' contributions he has. The OP had 15 years. If your OH has up to five years, I'd say look a bit more at the pros and cons of leaving it in the UK vs transferring it over (transferring it is likely to be the better bet).
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
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Re: Teacher pension
O.k. Look at how many years' contributions he has. The OP had 15 years. If your OH has up to five years, I'd say look a bit more at the pros and cons of leaving it in the UK vs transferring it over (transferring it is likely to be the better bet).
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
The more years you have in this scheme the more the balance tilts for leaving it in the UK. With 15 years - as I said before - nuts to transfer it.
Final salary or defined benefit schemes should not be given up lightly....especially if you have a few years in.
I just recieved notification (yesterday) that I have had a 5% increase in mine
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Last edited by Grayling; May 7th 2009 at 12:30 am.