# The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/regulation/79 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-79
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