STUC PENSION RALLY, SATURDAY 19 JUNE 2004

Members of SSTA lent their support to the STUC Pensions Rally on Saturday 19 June in Edinburgh. They came from various districts of Scotland to brave the very wet and windy conditions in Edinburgh that day to show the Association's determination to support this cause.

The DFES have published details of the proposed changes the to the Teachers Pension Scheme. on their website. Further detail will be given in due course.

MODERNISATION OF THE TEACHERS' PENSION SCHEME (TPS):

A PROGRESS REPORT ”” JULY 2004

Over the last six months or so, a considerable amount of progress has been made on the review of the TPS. Many aspects of the Scheme have been examined by the Teachers' Pension Review Group (made up of representatives from DfES, the Government Actuary's Department, teacher unions and employer associations as well as opposite numbers covering the Scottish and Northern Ireland teachers' schemes). The TPRG have now reached the point where there is sufficient clarity about a number of options for moving forward to enable a progress report to be made available to Scheme members.

For the full text of the progress report a can be viewed at the TeacherNet website