The Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 2010

Death grant: death out of service

85.—(1) A death grant may be paid on the death of a person (D) who was in pensionable employment at any time before D’s death.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if—

(a) a death grant may be paid under regulation 83 (death grant: death in service), or

(b) a retirement pension, short-service incapacity grant or short-service serious ill-health grant, calculated in every case by reference to all of D’s reckonable service at the date of D’s death, became payable before D’s death.

(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2) an ill-health pension does not become payable before a person’s death unless payment is initiated before the person’s death.

(4) D falls within this paragraph if—

(a) D was in pensionable employment at any time after 31st March 1972, and

(b) D had reckonable service of at least 2 years and, if D was in pensionable employment on or after 1st November 1988, D was qualified for retirement benefits.

(5) If D falls within paragraph (4) and no adult pension becomes payable on D’s death, the amount of the death grant is the greater of—

(a) the amount mentioned in paragraph (8), and

(b) the amount mentioned in paragraph (11).

(6) If D falls within paragraph (4) and an adult pension becomes payable on D’s death, the amount of the death grant is the amount mentioned in paragraph (8).

(7) If D does not fall within paragraph (4), the amount of the death grant is the amount mentioned in paragraph (11).

(8) The amount is 3/80 x D’s average salary x D’s reckonable service (in years (and fractions of a year)) less the total of the following benefits previously payable to D other than any already deducted in the calculation of a lump sum—

(a) any phased retirement lump sum in a case where the phased retirement pension payable with the lump sum ceased to be payable under regulation 59 (cessation of phased retirement pension);

(b) any retirement lump sum;

(c) any total incapacity lump sum;

(d) any lump sum under regulation 116 (election to receive lump sum in place of pension) other than a lump sum attributable to—

(i) a phased retirement pension except where the pension ceased to be payable under regulation 59 (cessation of phased retirement pension), or

(ii) an additional pension;

(e) any short-service incapacity grant, in a case where, after the grant became payable, D either did not re-enter pensionable employment or re-entered pensionable employment before 1st September 2010.

(9) In paragraph (8)—

(a) the reference to D’s reckonable service does not include a reference to reckonable service taken into account in the calculation of a phased retirement pension except where the pension ceased to be payable under regulation 59 (cessation of phased retirement pension);

(b) where D was a person with mixed service to whom a pension mentioned in paragraph (10) had become payable—

(i) the reference to D’s reckonable service is a reference to NPA 65 reckonable service, and

(ii) the reference to benefits previously payable to D does not include a reference to benefits calculated by reference to NPA 60 reckonable service.

(10) The pensions are—

(a) a retirement pension payable because Case A applied to D’s NPA 60 reckonable service;

(b) where D was 60 or over, an ill-health pension, or any part of such a pension, calculated by reference to D’s NPA 60 reckonable service.

(11) The amount is an amount equal to a refund of D’s contributions (calculated in accordance with regulation 23) paid in respect of any reckonable service which is not taken into account in the calculation of benefits.