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Guidance

Teachers’ pension grant: supplementary fund

Information on the pension supplementary fund and funding for local authority centrally employed teachers and music education hubs.

Updates to this page

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published:
27 February 2020
Last updated:
22 June 2020
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  1. Updated with extension of second window to end of June, as communicated to local authorities.

  2. We have updated the local authority guidance on applying for specialist institutions and centrally employed teachers.

  3. First published.

This publication was withdrawn on

The claims process in now complete.

Applies to England

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Pension supplementary fund and funding for local authority centrally employed teachers and music education hubs

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Teachers’ pension employer contribution grant supplementary fund: online claim form guidance

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The pension supplementary fund provides additional support, alongside the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG), for the cost to schools due to the increase in the employer contribution rate to the teachers’ pension scheme from September 2019.

This guidance provides information for:

  • schools and local authorities on how to apply to the supplementary fund, and the scheme for local authority centrally employed teachers
  • music education hubs on how to access funding for the pension costs

For 2019 to 2020, we’ve also published the:

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