Regulation G7 Pensioner’s children’s short-term pension
Subject to regulation G8(2), where a person who—
was entitled to receive payments in respect of a retirement pension (other than a pension sole entitlement to which is under regulation D17 or a pension under regulation D19), or
would have been so entitled but for a payment under regulation H6 (commutation in exceptional circumstances of ill-health) or the operation of Part I of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners),
dies leaving one or more eligible children, they are entitled to or to the benefit of a children’s short-term pension for 6 months after the death.
Subject to regulation G8(1), the annual rate of a children’s short-term pension is the rate at which a surviving spouse’s short-term pension would have been payable by virtue of regulation F4 (but, in a case where there is a widower, disregarding regulation F8(2)).