# The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, Regulation G7: Pensioner’s children’s short-term pension


(1) Subject to regulation G8(2), where a person who—
(a) 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
(b) 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.
(2) 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)).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/regulation/G7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-G7
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