BC Teachers' Pension Plan
British Columbia
Full pension and early retirement
You get a full pension, with no reduction, at the first of these:
- Age 65
- Earliest retirement
- Age 55
- Retiring earlier
- The plan quotes your reduced pension for each date
- Bridge benefit
- Until age 65, reduced with the pension if you retire early
- Increases after you retire
- 100% of inflation
What retiring early costs: an example
BC Teachers''s rules differ from member to member, such as by when service was earned, so there is no single example here. Your plan's statement or its estimator gives your pension for each date you could retire.
What to copy from your paperwork
To use your own numbers in the income timeline:
On your Member's Benefit Statement, section 3, 'Your estimated monthly pension benefit', use the rows under 'If you continue to work as you did in the past year'. For each age, from the Single Life Guaranteed 10 Years columns, copy Lifetime Monthly into 'Pension from 65' and Total into 'Pension until 65'.
BC Teachers''s own estimator: the pension estimator in My Account.
Where these rules come from
- Member benefit statement example · BC Pension Corporation
- Understand your member benefit statement · BC Pension Corporation
- Calculating your reduced pension · BC Pension Corporation
- Cost-of-living adjustments · BC Pension Corporation
- Last reviewed October 20, 2026.
These rules are simplified. Your plan's own estimate is the one to rely on; see the disclaimer.