# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, Regulation G7: Pensioner’s children’s short-term pension

Extent: N.I.

(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 D16 or a pension under regulation D18), or
(b) would have been so entitled but for a payment under regulation H6 or, as the case may be, regulation 52 of the 2002 Regulations (commutation in exceptional circumstances of ill-health) or the operation of Part I of Schedule D5 or, as the case may be, regulation 113 (abatement) of the 2002 Regulations (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 paragraph (3) and 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 F7(2)).
(3) In the case of a person who was a pension debit member the annual rate of children’s short-term pension is equal to the retirement pension to which the deceased person would have been entitled had his shareable rights not been subject to a pension debit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/177/regulation/G7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-G7
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