PART 5 Retirement benefits for teachers

CHAPTER 7Short-service serious ill-health grant

Entitlement to short-service serious ill-health grant121

1

A person (P) is entitled to payment of a short-service serious ill-health grant on the entitlement day if—

a

P was in pensionable service (other than post-benefit service) for at least 12 months;

b

P has left all eligible employment because P is incapacitated;

c

P is not qualified for retirement benefits;

d

P has not reached 75;

e

within 6 months of leaving all pensionable service P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of the grant; and

f

the scheme manager is satisfied after consideration of a medical report that—

i

P meets the incapacity condition; and

ii

P has a life expectancy of less than a year.

2

This regulation does not apply if P is in a period of post-benefit service immediately before the entitlement day.