# The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations 2014, Regulation 110: Entitlement to ill-health pension

Extent: E+W

(1) A member (P) is entitled to payment of an ill-health pension from the entitlement day if—
(a) P is qualified or re-qualified for retirement benefits;
(b) P has not reached normal pension age;
(c) P has left all eligible employment;
(d) P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of an ill-health pension;
(e) P has not applied under that regulation for payment of any other retirement pension; and
(f) the scheme manager is satisfied after consideration of a medical report—
(i) if paragraph (2) applies, that P meets the incapacity condition and the total incapacity condition; or
(ii) if paragraph (3) applies, that P meets the incapacity condition.
(2) This paragraph applies if—
(a) P left all eligible employment for a reason other than because P was incapacitated; or
(b) P made the ill-health application more than 2 years after the last day of pensionable service.
(3) This paragraph applies if—
(a) P left all pensionable service because P was incapacitated; and
(b) P made the ill-health application—
(i) before leaving all eligible employment; or
(ii) within 2 years after the last day of pensionable service.
(3A) Where paragraph (3) applies, the illness or injury which P relies upon in P’s ill-health application to meet the incapacity condition must be—
(a) the same illness or injury which was the reason, or as the case may be, one of the reasons for P leaving pensionable employment; or
(b) connected to or consequent upon that injury or illness.
(4) Except as provided in regulation 114, an ill-health pension is payable for life.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/512/regulation/110 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-2014/regulation-110
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