There are different rules if you have a full-time contract and an additional part-time contract, depending on which scheme arrangement you’re in. For these purposes the additional part-time contract is referred to as ‘excess service’. This occurs if you’ve a full-time contract plus additional part-time contract(s). It doesn’t occur if you have multiple part-time contracts, even when they exceed 365 days.

The Transition Protection changes which are being introduced will affect any excess service during the remedy period.

Final salary scheme

Where there is concurrent full-time and part-time teaching service, the part-time service isn’t pensionable in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. This excess teaching service will be pensionable in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

Career average

There are no issues with excess service in the career average scheme as all teaching employment is pensionable in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

How excess service is treated will be dependent upon whether your employer during the remedy period participated in the LGPS.

You’ll be asked to make a decision on your excess service as part of your rollback choices. More information on this can be found on our bespoke LGPS pages.