# The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997, Regulation 16: Duration of compensation on death


(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (5), a person’s short-term compensation under regulation 14 is payable from the day after that of the death, and the duration of the short-term compensation payable shall be ascertained from the table below.
TABLE
Category
Person entitled to short-term compensation
Duration of compensation (months)
1.
Spouse or nominated beneficiary
3
2.
One child or more where adult compensation is payable
3
3.
One child or more where no adult compensation is payable
6
In the table above “adult compensation” means short-term compensation payable to a spouse or nominated beneficiary.
(2) Where a person died before 1st December 1996, the duration of the short-term compensation shall not be ascertained from the table in paragraph (1) above but shall be ascertained from the table in paragraph (1), and payable as set out in paragraph (1A), of regulation 11 of the 1989 Regulations as in force before the amendments made by the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) (Amendment) Regulations 1996.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), a person’s long-term compensation under regulation 15 is payable—
(a) from the day following that on which his short-term compensation ceases to be payable, or
(b) if no short-term compensation was payable, from the day after that of the death,
and is payable for life.
(4) Unless the compensating authority determines otherwise in the particular case, long-term adult compensation is not payable during or after any marriage or period of cohabitation outside marriage.
(5) Short-term or long-term compensation payable to or for the benefit of a child ceases to be payable when he ceases to be a child.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/311/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-compensation-for-redundancy-and-premature-retirement-regulations-1997/regulation-16
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