The Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 2010

Short-service serious ill -health grant

79.—(1) This regulation applies to a person (P) if—

(a) P was in pensionable employment for at least 12 months,

(b) P is not qualified for retirement benefits or qualified for retirement benefits following further employment,

(c) P ceases to be in pensionable employment because P satisfies the incapacity condition,

(d) P’s application under regulation 107 (payment of benefits on application to Secretary of State) is made within 6 months after the date on which P’s pensionable employment ceases, and

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

(2) A short-service serious ill-health grant is payable to a person to whom this regulation applies.

(3) But no grant may be paid to a person who is 75 or over.

(4) The amount of the grant is P’s average salary/12 x P’s reckonable service (in years and fractions of a year).

(5) For the purpose of this regulation, a person satisfies the incapacity condition if the person is incapacitated and is likely to be incapacitated permanently.