PART 7 E+WBenefits for pension credit members

CHAPTER 3 E+WDeath grant

Payment of death grant E+W

160.  On the death of a pension credit member, [F1 where a death grant is to be paid, the payment must be made]—

(a) to the death grant beneficiary;

(b) if there is more than one death grant beneficiary, to those beneficiaries in the shares determined in accordance with regulation 157(4) and (5); or

(c) if there is no death grant beneficiary—

(i) to the member's surviving spouse or surviving civil partner; or,

(ii) if there is no such person, to the member's personal representatives as part of the member's estate.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 160 substituted (retrospective to 1.4.2015) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/218), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(8)