Regulation 43 Survivor benefits: children of active members

If an active member dies leaving one or more eligible children, those eligible children are entitled to a children's pension which shall come into payment on the day following the member's death.

The Committee shall open a survivor member's pension account for the eligible child or children, in accordance with regulation 44 (survivor benefits: children of active member where pension is payable to partner of an active member) or regulation 45 (survivor benefits: children of active member where no pension is payable to partner of active member) from the day following the member's death.

The children's pension shall be calculated in accordance with regulation 44 or regulation 45.

The balance in the survivor member's pension account, at the end of the Scheme year in which the survivor member's pension account was opened, is adjusted F1on the revaluation date in the following Scheme year by the F2revaluation adjustment applicable to the Scheme year in which the survivor member's pension account was opened, F3and takes effect from the start of the Scheme year following the Scheme year in which the survivor member’s account was opened, in accordance with actuarial guidance issued by the Department.

The balance calculated under regulation 44(2) (survivor benefits: children of active member where pension is payable to partner of an active member) or 45(2) (survivor benefits: children of active member where no pension is payable to partner of an active member) is the opening balance of the survivor member’s pension account for the following Scheme year and, having applied the revaluation adjustment to the balance in accordance with paragraph (4), thereafter, the balance in that survivor member’s pension account is adjusted each year by the index rate adjustment from the date that an increase would apply if that balance were a pension in payment to which the 1971 Act applied.

Where an index rate adjustment is due to be made on a revaluation date, any such adjustment must be made immediately after the revaluation adjustment is made.

The Committee may pay the whole or part of a children’s pension to a person other than the eligible child, to be applied for the benefit of such one or more eligible children as the Committee may direct.