The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 No. 292

PART 7 Benefits for pension credit members

CHAPTER 3 Death grant

Payment of death grant

157.  On the death of a pension credit member, the death grant must be paid—

(a) to the death grant beneficiary;

(b) if there is more than one death grant beneficiary, to those beneficiaries in the shares determined in accordance with regulation 154(4) and (5); or

(c) if there is no death grant beneficiary, to—

(i) the member’s surviving spouse or surviving civil partner; or

(ii) if there is no such person, to the member’s executors as part of the member’s estate.