Medical Retirement T&C

50Twuncle

I currently work at a school for 10 hours per week and am struggling to make it from the carpark to my office and am considering (applying for) medical retirement.......
I previously was medically retired from a full time job as a civil servant, 10 years ago with no T&C applied.

I uinderstand that one of the T&C from this job, is that I do not earn any money from another job
This does appear to be pretty strict - especially considering my income would be dramaticallt reduced from the £80 per week that I currently earn and am wondering exactly how the paying authority would find our whether I was (for example) running a home based business ?

BrassicWoman

there tend to be 2 kinds of medical retirement - unable to work for a while, and unable to ever work again

as it comes from the pension fund - it seems fair the pensioners get a rebate if it turns out you can work after all?

BreconBlodwin

50Twuncle wrote: »

I currently work at a school for 10 hours per week and am struggling to make it from the carpark to my office and am considering (applying for) medical retirement.......
I previously was medically retired from a full time job as a civil servant, 10 years ago with no T&C applied.

I uinderstand that one of the T&C from this job, is that I do not earn any money from another job
This does appear to be pretty strict - especially considering my income would be dramaticallt reduced from the £80 per week that I currently earn and am wondering exactly how the paying authority would find our whether I was (for example) running a home based business ?

You are asking decent people to advise, therefore advocate, a solution to a future problem you perceive that is both deceitful and dishonest?
Nice one!!

Brynsam

50Twuncle wrote: »

I currently work at a school for 10 hours per week and am struggling to make it from the carpark to my office and am considering (applying for) medical retirement.......
I previously was medically retired from a full time job as a civil servant, 10 years ago with no T&C applied.

I uinderstand that one of the T&C from this job, is that I do not earn any money from another job
This does appear to be pretty strict - especially considering my income would be dramaticallt reduced from the £80 per week that I currently earn and am wondering exactly how the paying authority would find our whether I was (for example) running a home based business ?

Have you any idea just how expensive (to your employer) ill health early retirement is? If you can run a home-based business, why not do that instead of expecting someone else to bail you out again, when you've already had the benefit (courtesy of the taxpayer) of medical retirement from the Civil Service.

FBaby

The T&C would have been incorporated because of people who would have done exactly like you have and plan to do again.

How would they find out? Well if you plan on starting a business, you are likely to need to axglvertisecit and now with Google, it's easy to find anything you look for.

50Twuncle

Brynsam wrote: »

Have you any idea just how expensive (to your employer) ill health early retirement is? If you can run a home-based business, why not do that instead of expecting someone else to bail you out again, when you've already had the benefit (courtesy of the taxpayer) of medical retirement from the Civil Service.

You have absolutely no idea as to the circumstances of my previous medical retirement

- or this one - do you ?

NeilCr

Many years ago my friend was a pension trustee where she worked. They had these medical retirement rules and I know they checked every so often if retirees were working. I don't know how.

They, definitely, sent out annual letters asking the retirees to confirm in writing that they weren't working.

I can't believe your pension scheme won't have a means of checking and I am sure they will ask you to say you aren't periodically.

Comms69

50Twuncle wrote: »

I currently work at a school for 10 hours per week and am struggling to make it from the carpark to my office and am considering (applying for) medical retirement.......
I previously was medically retired from a full time job as a civil servant, 10 years ago with no T&C applied.

I uinderstand that one of the T&C from this job, is that I do not earn any money from another job
This does appear to be pretty strict - especially considering my income would be dramaticallt reduced from the £80 per week that I currently earn and am wondering exactly how the paying authority would find our whether I was (for example) running a home based business ?

If you don't like the T&Cs surely you can just resign?

Brynsam

50Twuncle wrote: »

You have absolutely no idea as to the circumstances of my previous medical retirement

- or this one - do you ?

No, but such information is irrelevant to your question, which is basically checking if/how you can get round the rules of something. Why are you surprised that people aren't impressed?

Marcon

50Twuncle wrote: »

You have absolutely no idea as to the circumstances of my previous medical retirement

- or this one - do you ?

On the contrary. You've told us you were medically retired and certainly the Civil Service substantially enhances pensions in that situation, for which the taxpayer picks up the extra cost - tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds. That's the sort of order you're looking at.

You are saying that you are now looking at another medical retirement from your current job and, from the restrictions you quote, it is obvious that the scheme offers better than 'normal' early retirement benefits. Again, you don't pay any extra cost for the extra benefits (your employer does).

Manxman_in_exile

50Twuncle wrote: »

I currently work at a school for 10 hours per week and am struggling to make it from the carpark to my office and am considering (applying for) medical retirement.......
I previously was medically retired from a full time job as a civil servant, 10 years ago with no T&C applied.

I uinderstand that one of the T&C from this job, is that I do not earn any money from another job
This does appear to be pretty strict - especially considering my income would be dramaticallt reduced from the £80 per week that I currently earn and am wondering exactly how the paying authority would find our whether I was (for example) running a home based business ?

Do you mean the T&Cs of your current ten hours per week job don't allow you to have another job, or do you mean the T&Cs of medical retirement in your current job prevent you from taking another job subsequently?


When I worked in the NHS you had to be wholly unable (near enough) to work at all to get an ill-health retirement. Finding it difficult to get from the car park to your office wouldn't cut it.


How would they find out you'd started working? They may or may not or, as somebody else has posted, they might ask you!