# The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Wales) Order 2007, Paragraph 2: Amount of survivor’s pension: general


(1) Subject to rule 3, the amount of a survivor’s pension—
(a) in respect of a firefighter member who satisfies an eligibility condition and dies while employed by an authority, is half of the higher tier ill-health pension to which the member would have been entitled under rule 2(3) of Part 3 had the member retired with the benefit of an ill-health award;
(b) in any other case, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), is half of the pension to which the deceased was entitled.
(2) Where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted under rule 9 of Part 3, the amount of the survivor’s pension is half of the deceased’s pension after commutation.
(3) Where the deceased had taken member-initiated early retirement, the amount of the survivor’s pension is —
(a) half of the amount of the pension which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; or
(b) where a portion of the deceased’s pension had been commuted, the amount found by dividing by 2 the product of A and B, where—
A is the amount which the deceased would have received if there had been no actuarial reduction; and
B is the fraction which represents the uncommuted portion of A expressed as a fraction of A.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/1072/schedule/1/part/4/chapter/1/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-wales-order-2007/schedule-1/part-4/chapter-1/paragraph-2
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