The Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations 2014

Entitlement to short-service serious ill-health grant

121.—(1) A person (P) is entitled to payment of a short-service serious ill-health grant on the entitlement day if—

(a) P was in pensionable service (other than post-benefit service) for at least 12 months;

(b) P has left all eligible employment because P is incapacitated;

(c) P is not qualified for retirement benefits;

(d) P has not reached 75;

(e) within 6 months of leaving all pensionable service P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of the grant; and

(f) the scheme manager is satisfied after consideration of a medical report that—

(i) P meets the incapacity condition; and

(ii) P has a life expectancy of less than a year.

(2) This regulation does not apply if P is in a period of post-benefit service immediately before the entitlement day.