SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 3Contribution Conditions for Entitlement to Benefit
PART IThe conditions
Death grant
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1
The contribution condition for a death grant is that—
a
the contributor concerned must in respect of any one year ending before the relevant year have actually paid contributions of a relevant class ; and
b
the earnings factor derived from those contributions must be not less than that year's lower earnings limit multiplied by 25.
2
For the purposes of this condition, " the relevant year " is the year in which occurred the death giving rise to the claim for a death grant, except that if immediately before the date of the death the contributor concerned was himself dead or over pensionable age it is the year in which he attained that age or died under it.