PART FSURVIVING SPOUSES' PENSIONS

Death of a member

Member’s spouse’s short-term pensionF1

1

Subject to regulations F7 (remarriage and cohabitation) and G8(3), if a member dies living a surviving spouse or spouses, that spouse is entitled or, as the case may be, they are jointly entitled, to a spouse’s short-term pension—

a

if the spouse has one or more eligible children in his or her care, for six months after the member’s death, or

b

otherwise for three months after the member’s death.

2

Where paragraph (1) applies then, subject to paragraph 21 of Schedule D5 (re-employed pensioners), the annual rate of the short-term pension is a rate equal to the spouse’s pensionable remuneration.

3

Paragraph 7 of Schedule D1 (by virtue of which member is, in respect of any period of part-time local government employment, to be treated as having received the remuneration which would have been paid in respect of a single comparable whole-time employment) does not apply to the application of regulation D1 and that Schedule to this regulation.