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.