Regulation 43 Death grants: deferred members, pension credit members and deferred pensioner members

If a deferred member dies an administering authority shall pay a death grant.

The appropriate administering authority may, at its absolute discretion, pay the death grant to or for the benefit of the member's nominee, personal representatives or any person appearing to the authority to have been a relative or dependent of the member.

The death grant is the amount the member would have been entitled to receive as retirement pension annually F1, excluding any final guarantee amount under regulation 4B or 4C of the 2014 Regulations, if—

For the purposes of paragraph (3), if the member—

the pension is deemed to include the revaluation adjustment that would have been due at the next revaluation date.

In paragraph (3) “deferred guarantee amount” has the meaning given in regulation 4P(3) of the 2014 Regulations.

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This regulation applies to pension credit members (including persons entitled to a pension credit who die before the appropriate administering authority awards a pension credit) as it applies to deferred members with the modification that for the amount of death grant calculated under paragraph (3), the amount calculated under paragraph (3)(a) and (b) is multiplied by 3 F8and paragraph (3A) does not apply.

This regulation applies to deferred pensioner members as it applies to deferred members except that the amount of death grant calculated under paragraph (3) is reduced by the amount of pension already paid to the member under regulation 35(7) (early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: active members) and any lump sum paid under regulation 33 (election for lump sum instead of pension).