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CHILDREN'S PENSIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF A FORMER COUNCILLOR MEMBER ON PENSION
Eligibility
Children's pensions are payable for so long as eligible children remain following your death, no matter how long you have been a member of the LGPS. Eligible children must be your children. They must, at the date of your death:
- be under 18 and be wholly or mainly dependant on you, or
- be aged 18 or over and under 23, be dependent on you, and be in full-time education or undertaking vocational training (although a dependant child who commences full-time education or vocational training after the date of your death may be treated as an eligible child up to age 23), or
- in some cases, a dependant child of any age who is disabled may be classed as an eligible child.
- In all cases, the children must have been born before or within a year of your death.
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One Child where Survivor's Pension payable |
 Deceased's Pension at Date of Death*
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Or would have received but for a reduction as a result of early retirement or as a result of an exchange of pension for an increased lump sum, or had it not been paid as a lump sum due to exceptional ill health. If the deceased's pension was originally calculated on a total membership of less than the shorter of ten years or the amount they could have accrued had they continued working to age 65, this amount is used to increase the deceased's pension for the purpose of calculating the children’s pension only.
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Two or more Children where Survivor's Pension payable
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 Deceased's Pension at Date of Death* x 1/2
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Or would have received but for a reduction as a result of early retirement or as a result of an exchange of pension for an increased lump sum, or had it not been paid as a lump sum due to exceptional ill health. If the deceased's pension was originally calculated on a total membership of less than the shorter of ten years or the amount they could have accrued had they continued working to age 65, this amount is used to increase the deceased's pension for the purpose of calculating the children’s pension only.
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One Child where NO Survivor's Pension payable |
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Deceased's Pension at Date of Death* x 1/3
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Or would have received but for a reduction as a result of early retirement or as a result of an exchange of pension for an increased lump sum, or had it not been paid as a lump sum due to exceptional ill health. If the deceased's pension was originally calculated on a total membership of less than the shorter of ten years or the amount they could have accrued had they continued working to age 65, this amount is used to increase the deceased's pension for the purpose of calculating the children’s pension only.
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Two or more Children where NO Survivor's Pension payable
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Deceased's Pension at Date of Death* x 2/3
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Or would have received but for a reduction as a result of early retirement or as a result of an exchange of pension for an increased lump sum, or had it not been paid as a lump sum due to exceptional ill health. If the deceased's pension was originally calculated on a total membership of less than the shorter of ten years or the amount they could have accrued had they continued working to age 65, this amount is used to increase the deceased's pension for the purpose of calculating the children’s pension only.
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