PART 5 Retirement benefits for teachers

CHAPTER 6Ill-health retirement

SECTION 2Ill-health pension

Entitlement day for ill-health pension109

F11

The entitlement day for an ill-health pension is the latest of the following—

a

the day that falls 6 months before the date of a medical report following consideration of which the scheme manager is satisfied that a person (P) meets the incapacity condition or, if applicable, the total incapacity condition;

b

the day specified in that medical report as the day on which P first met the incapacity condition or, if applicable, the total incapacity condition;

c

the day after P leaves all eligible employment;

d

the date of any previous medical report following consideration of which the scheme manager is not satisfied that P meets the incapacity condition or, if applicable, the total incapacity condition.

F22

The scheme manager may only make the determination mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) after consideration of a medical report produced no more than 18 months before the date on which P made the ill-health application.