Verification of Teaching Service for Pension Purposes

• Published date: 23 October 2019
• Issuer: Department of Education

Corr na Madadh, Baile Átha Luain, Co. na hIarmhí, N37 X659 S1 Form – May 2019

Cornamaddy, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, N37 X659

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Verification of Teaching Service for Pension Purposes

Part 1 – Information Notes To Be Read Before This Form Is Completed.

Teacher

To be completed by teacher BEFORE submitting this form to the School Authority / ETB. If you have

given teaching service in more than one school a separate form must be completed in respect of each

school. Teachers must grant permission to the Teaching Council for their details to be accessible on the

website of the Teaching Council in order for this Department to verify teacher’s qualifications. This facility

can be enabled on the ‘My Registration’ section of the Teaching Council’s website

www.teachingcouncil.ie.

School Authority

The completed form must be returned to the teacher by the School Authority.

Periods of Service

1. Only periods of PAID non-incremental service to be listed – i.e. where the teacher was paid directly

by the school e.g. Substitute, Part-time.

2. Part-time service must be shown in periods of unbroken service. The minimum period reckonable is

a week in which at least 9 hours was assigned to the teacher in any ONE school. It is not possible

to combine a series of part time teaching service to equate to the nine hours per week requirement.

3. The completed form should include actual dates worked and hours worked (as appropriate) per

week.

4. Where service is being claimed for the H Dip year, the form should separately and clearly show (i)

hours which were completed as part of the Higher Diploma training and (ii) hours which were

paid by the school in a substitute capacity. Hours worked as an integral part of Higher Diploma

training are not reckonable for pension purposes.

5. Where the School Authority does not hold employment records for the employee listed, the school

authority shall inform the Department in writing as to the reason why no such records exist.

Time-tabled Hours per Week

List only the periods of employment in which the teacher was assigned at least nine hours of time-tabled

class instruction.

Signatory

This certificate MUST be signed by a duly authorised representative of the management authority of the

school in which the service was rendered.