An application made by a person (P) under regulation 162 for payment of a short-service serious ill-health grant—
must be accompanied by all the medical evidence necessary for the scheme manager to determine that P is entitled to the payment; and
must be signed by P’s employer.
The medical evidence must include a medical report containing evidence that P—
meets the incapacity condition; and
has a life expectancy of less than a year.
The entitlement day for a short-service serious ill-health grant is the day after a person (P) leaves all eligible employment because P is incapacitated.
A person (P) is entitled to payment of a short-service serious ill-health grant on the entitlement day if—
P was in pensionable service (other than post-benefit service) for at least 12 months;
P has left all eligible employment because P is incapacitated;
P is not qualified for retirement benefits;
P has not reached 75;
within 6 months of leaving all pensionable service P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of the grant; and
the scheme manager is satisfied after consideration of a medical report that—
P meets the incapacity condition; and
P has a life expectancy of less than a year.
This regulation does not apply if P is in a period of post-benefit service immediately before the entitlement day.
The amount of a short-service serious ill-health grant is the greater of—
1/6th of the member’s annual rate of pensionable earnings as at the last day of pensionable service; and
the total of the amounts specified in paragraph (2).
The amounts are—
all members’ contributions, additional pension contributions, buy-out contributions and faster accrual contributions paid up to the date of receipt of the application under regulation 119, except any paid in respect of a period of pensionable service for which a short-service serious ill-health grant has been paid; and
interest on those contributions from the first day of the financial year following that in which they were paid to the date of payment at 3% per year, compounded with yearly rests.