What is the effect of a stepping down election?
If you agree, in the interests of the efficient discharge of your employer’s function, to step down to a post of lesser responsibility (and lower salary) with the same employing authority, there is a facility whereby your pension benefits can be protected from the full effect of the drop in salary. Within 13 weeks after starting in the post of lesser responsibility you and your employing authority must give written notification to Teachers’ Pensions Branch that you have done so.
