Regulation 79 Short-service serious ill -health grant

(1)

This regulation applies to a person (P) if—

(a)

P was in pensionable employment for at least 12 months,

(b)

P is not qualified for retirement benefits or qualified for retirement benefits following further employment,

(c)

P ceases to be in pensionable employment because P satisfies the incapacity condition,

(d)

P's application under regulation 107 (payment of benefits on application to Secretary of State) is made within 6 months after the date on which P's pensionable employment ceases, and

(e)

P has a life expectancy of less than a year.

(2)

A short-service serious ill-health grant is payable to a person to whom this regulation applies.

(3)

But no grant may be paid to a person who is 75 or over.

(4)

The amount of the grant is P's average salary/12 x P's reckonable service (in years and fractions of a year).

(5)

For the purpose of this regulation, a person satisfies the incapacity condition if the person is incapacitated and is likely to be incapacitated permanently.

Notes on Part 7

Modifications

C1: Pt. 7 applied (1.4.2015) by The Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/601), regs. 1, 4 (with reg. 44(2)(3))