PART 4Teachers’ Pension Scheme Regulations 2014
Amendments to regulation 13524
For regulation 135 substitute—
Surviving qualifying partner135
1
For the purposes of a survivor’s pension, a member’s partner (P) is a “surviving qualifying partner” if the conditions in paragraph (2) are satisfied for a continuous period of at least 2 years ending on the member’s death.
2
The conditions are—
a
the member is able to marry or form a civil partnership with P;
b
the member and P live with each other as if they were a married couple or civil partners;
c
neither the member nor P lives with a third person as if they were a married couple or civil partners; and
d
the member and P are financially interdependent or P is financially dependent on the member.