The Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations 2014 No. 512

PART 6 Survivor’s benefits

CHAPTER 6 Child pensions

Enhancement of child pension

152.—(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—

where—

• R is—

  (i)

  37.5%, if a surviving adult pension is payable;

  (ii)

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

• S is the sum of the following amounts—

  (i)

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

  (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—

  (i)

  2, if a child pension is payable to no more than 2 eligible children; or

  (ii)

  the number of eligible children, if a child pension is payable to more than 2 eligible children; and

• “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.