Scores of teachers learned pension payments going back up to 30 years ago are missing from official records. The Department for Education, which runs Teachers’ Pension Scheme, says it is impossible to calculate the scale of the crisis – thought to involve missed payments potentially totalling tens of millions. Shadow Schools Minister Margaret Greenwood warned: “This has the potential to be devastating for thousands of teachers. Teachers are enrolled in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme the day they start work. She said: “I’d heard through friends that I should check my teacher pension as everyone who’d spoken about it had errors in theirs.

Source: Daily Mirror October 10, 2020 20:58 UTC