The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is designed to work together with the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). You qualify for an unreduced retirement pension when you reach your 85 factor (age + If you earn $85,000 in your five highest salary years and have 30 years of credit, your basic annual pension would be 2% × 30 × $85,000 = $51,000.However, once you reach age 65 OR begin collecting a disability pension from the (CPP adjustment factor applied the year you turn 65)(years of service in Ontario Teachers' during which you also contributed to CPP)(five-year average YMPE based on when you last contributed to Ontario Teachers' or your best-five average salary, whichever is lower) This is one reason why employee contributions have been rising over the past decade.

Retirement may be the last thing on your mind, especially if you are just starting your career. You qualify for an unreduced retirement pension when you reach your 85 factor (age + qualifying years = 85), or at age 65.

Retirement. Deciding whether a temporary annuity is right for youFor most members of BC’s Teachers’ Pension Plan, the normal retirement age is 65 and the earliest retirement age is 55.If you are thinking about retiring before the plan's normal retirement age, you should keep the following in mind:

Today, a typical career teacher retires at age 58 with an annual pension of about $46,000. The full, uncapped indexation within the PSPP is a rarity, even in the public sector.Cost-sharing in the public sector has been evolving in recent years.

Contributions under the PSPP are a little lower at 9.49/11.67 (same threshold of $57,400).When we add in the employer’s share, total contributions in both plans exceed 20 per cent of pay. In the OTPP, the active members and the employers share all costs 50-50.

After a while, wanting to do something became more important to me. Once you're ready, sign in to your Ontario Teachers' online and apply for your pension in a few simple steps.Follow our timelines so you know now what to do, and when.Know what kind of pension you're eligible for, and when you can apply.Learn about the adjustments that may be applied to your pension.See how this key benefit of your pension plan will help you keep up with the cost of living.We've answered some of your most common questions about retiring. In the PSPP, the cost of deficits is borne purely by the government (i.e., the taxpayer). With the CPP being enhanced, this can only go up.Both plans strive to provide 100-per-cent inflation protection of pensions, meaning that pensions rise each year in line with the annual change in the consumer price index (CPI). Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way.

The fact that PSPP does not extend the 50-50 cost-sharing principle to the sharing of deficits makes the PSPP considerably more generous overall.In both plans, the contributions being made exceed what private sector workers can contribute to RRSPs or defined contribution pension plans.In both plans, the early retirement rules are quite generous.

The PSPP and the OTPP do exactly the opposite.Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community.

The early retirement rules within the PSPP are also generous though they don’t quite match the OTPP.

Another reason is to pay for the investment losses that occurred during the global financial crisis.In the OTPP, employees contribute 10.4 per cent on their earnings below $57,400 and 12 per cent on earnings over $57,400 (which we refer to as 10.4/12).

Another instance of “Do as I say, not as I do." The annuity cost lowers the amount of your lifetime pension.