PART 1Membership, contributions and benefits
Survivor benefits
Death grants: deferred members and pension credit membersC141
1
If a deferred member dies before attaining the age of 75, the appropriate administering authority shall pay a death grant.
2
The administering authority may, at its absolute discretion, pay the death grant to or for the benefit of the member's nominee, personal representatives or any person appearing to the authority to have been a relative or dependent of the member.
3
The death grant is the amount the member would have been entitled to receive as retirement pension annually F2, excluding any final guarantee amount under regulation 4B or 4C of the Transitional Provisions and Savings Regulations 2014, if—
a
the member had been able to draw a pension on the day the member died; F4...
b
the pension the member would have been able to draw on that date had not been subject to any restriction on the age at which it could be drawn, or actuarial adjustment relating to the age at which it was drawn, F5and
F3c
it included any deferred guarantee amount calculated under regulation 4N of the Transitional Provisions and Savings Regulations 2014.
multiplied by 5.
F13A
In paragraph (3) “deferred guarantee amount” has the meaning given in regulation 4N(3) of the Transitional Provisions and Savings Regulations 2014.
F63B
For the purposes of paragraph (3), if the member—
a
died in the period beginning with 1 April and ending with 5 April in the Scheme year following the Scheme year in which the member ceased to be an active member, or
b
ceased to be an active member and became a deferred member in the period beginning with 1 April and ending with 5 April in a Scheme year and subsequently died within that same period,
the pension is deemed to include the revaluation adjustment that would have been due at the next revaluation date.
4
This regulation applies to pension credit members (including persons entitled to a pension credit who die before the appropriate administering authority awards a pension credit) as it applies to deferred members with the modification that for the amount of death grant calculated under paragraph (3), the amount calculated under paragraph (3)(a) and (b) is multiplied by 5 F7, and paragraph (3B) does not apply.