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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a limit to how many hours a retired teacher can sub without it affecting their pension? [/quote]

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Are there any retired teachers on this thread who has an answer? [/quote]

[b]I don’t believe that this is an issue,[/b] but there are certainly a lot of barriers to subbing after retirement. Most retirees do not want to sub every day and only want to sub at their former school/in their former department. The sub office requires subs to work a certain number of days over a period of time. If subs don’t work enough, they get booted. Retirees also have to jump through paperwork hoops to sub, despite being employees several months prior to subbing. Very few recent retirees are coming back to sub. [/quote]

Thanks. The other things you mentioned are understood. I’m retiring at the end of this school year and want to work doing something part time, so I’m considering subbing. I wouldn’t be concerned about not working enough. I’d be willing to sub at a number of nearby ESs and trying MS or HS would be interesting, at least initially.[/quote]

This year it's only 10 total days you have to sub to avoid going through fingerprinting the next year.

I am a former (but not retired) teacher that only subs a few days a week at a few schools but am already at 20 days for the year. [/quote]

Would you say it is fairly easy to pick up 3 days a week between 5 or 6 nearby elementary schools?[/quote]

If you can get on the "preferred" list at those schools then they will most likely pre-arrange jobs for you. It might be slow the first few weeks and you won't be able to be picky about jobs, but once you've survived one day and made a good impression, you will be golden. Almost all (all but 3) of my 20 jobs have been pre-arranged by teachers emailing me in advance. I think our local elementary has a list of people they call first (outside the automated system), if they can't find someone then it goes in the system.

I don't take morning of jobs because it doesn't work for our family at this time in terms of childcare coordination. [/quote]

I'm retiring as an ES teacher at the end of this SY, but only from full-time teaching. I still want to work part-time and while I've started browsing online to see what is available (I've seen some interesting possibilities), I think subbing might work well. 12 or 13 days a month would bring in the extra $ I would like and I'd still be able to keep my summers open since my DW will still be teaching full-time. [/quote]

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