The Local Government (Early Termination of Employment) (Discretionary Compensation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Short-term compensation for children

22.—(1) This regulation applies where a person who has been awarded a credited period dies, leaving one or more eligible children –

(a) who are entitled to a short-term pension under regulation 47 (children’s short-term pensions) of the Pension Regulations; or

(b) who would be so entitled but for –

(i) a relevant disqualification with respect to the deceased (and on the relevant assumptions); or

(ii) the transfer of benefits to another pension scheme.

(2) Where this regulation applies, but subject to paragraph (3), the eligible children are entitled to, or to have paid for their benefit, children’s short-term compensation for the same period as that for which their short-term pension is payable under regulation 47(2) or (3) of the Pension Regulations.

(3) An eligible child is not entitled to compensation under paragraph (2) for any period during which he is in the care of a surviving spouse who is entitled to short-term compensation under regulation 20.

(4) Children’s short-term compensation is payable at an annual rate equal to that at which annual compensation would have been payable to the deceased in accordance with these Regulations, ignoring any adjustment in accordance with regulation 13 or 14 or under regulation 18.

(5) If eligible children to whom or for whose benefit periodic payments are made are entitled to children’s short-term compensation for a period, the amount payable to or for their benefit for that period is the amount which would have been paid to them (in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2)) for that period, less the total of any periodic payments made for that period.