PART 6Survivor's benefits

CHAPTER 6Child pensions

Enhancement of child pension152.

(1)

This regulation applies if a member (D)—

(a)

dies in service; or

(b)

dies as a pensioner member after an ill-health pension and a total incapacity pension become payable to D.

(2)

If this regulation applies, the long-term rate of child pension is—

R   ×   S E Cmath

where—

R is—

  1. (i)

    37.5%, if a surviving adult pension is payable;

  2. (ii)

    50%, if a surviving adult pension is not payable or has ceased to be payable;

S is the sum of the following amounts—

  1. (i)

    the amount of D's accrued earned pension as at the date of D's death; and

  2. (ii)

    the amount found by multiplying half D's prospective service (in years and fractions of a year) by 1/57th of D's annual rate of pensionable earnings as at the date of D's death;

EC is the number of D's eligible children.

“D's prospective service” means the period (in years and fractions of a year) beginning with the day after the date of D's death and ending on the day on which D would have reached prospective normal pension age.