The Railways Pension Scheme Order 1994

Pensions for Eligible Spouse and Eligible Children

7C  The annual amount of the Eligible Spouse’s and Eligible Children’s pensions shall be:

(i) the pension the Member would have received under Rule 5D (Early Retirement through Incapacity) if he had retired through Incapacity immediately before his death;

multiplied by

(ii) the fractions shown in the following table:

Status at the date of the Member’s death	Eligible Spouse	Youngest Eligible Child for the time being	Second youngest Eligible Child for the time being
Eligible Spouse or Eligible Dependant alive	½	¼	⅛
No Eligible Spouse or Eligible Dependant alive	—	½	¼

The pension payable to an Eligible Spouse under this Rule shall be payable from the day following the Member’s death and shall cease on the death of the Eligible Spouse.

If the Eligible Spouse is more than 10 years younger than the Member and had not been married to the Member for 5 or more years, the Eligible Spouse’s pension shall be reduced by 2.5% for each year by which the age difference exceeds 10 years or by such lesser amount as the Trustee may decide with the agreement of the Actuary.

The pensions in respect of Eligible Children shall be payable from the day following the Member’s death. When an Eligible Spouse or the last surviving Eligible Dependant dies, any pension payable to the Member’s Eligible Children shall be increased from the day after the death to the amount of pension which would have been payable if there had been no Eligible Spouse or Eligible Dependant at the time of the Member’s death.