If you die before taking your deferred benefits the amount of death grant depends on when you left the scheme:
Left the scheme with deferred benefits before 1 April 2008
A death grant of three times your deferred annual pension is paid.
Left the scheme with deferred benefits after 31 March 2008
A death grant of five times your deferred annual pension is paid.
The death grant that is payable may be affected if you have active membership elsewhere in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
You can let us know who you want to receive the death grant. If you have not already made your wishes known or you wish to update your nomination, please either login to My Pension Online or can complete a Death Grant Nomination Form and send it to the Pensions Section.
Survivor’s pension
A pension is payable to your husband, wife or civil partner and if you left the scheme after 1 April 2008 and are eligible, a pension for your cohabiting partner. However, if you are female and you left the scheme before 6 April 1988, the regulations do not provide a survivor’s pension.
You don’t have to provide us with details of your cohabiting partner but we recommend that you do using the Nomination of Co-habiting Partner for Survivors Pension form. The form and attached notes also provide further information on the criteria for receiving a cohabiting partner’s pension.
The survivor’s pension is payable immediately after your death for the rest of their life and will be adjusted every year in line with the cost of living.
Please see LGPS Member website for further infromation.
Child’s pension
A child’s pension is also due to any eligible child/children. The amount of pension depends on the number of children and whether a survivor’s pension will be paid. Where a pension is payable to two or more children the pension will be shared equally.