Survivor's pension payable to your spouse (from an opposite sex or same sex marriage)
For each year of membership you built up from 1 April 2014 to your date of death you would have been credited with a pension equal to a proportion (i.e. 1/49th or, for any period you were in the 50/50 section of the scheme, 1/98th) of the pensionable pay [1] (or assumed pensionable pay [2]where applicable) you received during that year.
The pension payable to your spouse is calculated on a different proportion:
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1/160th of your pensionable pay (or assumed pensionable pay where applicable), plus,
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49/160ths of the amount of any pension credited to your pension account [3] following a transfer of pension rights into the Scheme from another pension scheme or arrangement, plus,
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1/160th of your assumed pensionable pay for each year of membership you would have built up from your date of death to your Normal Pension Age [4].
For final salary membership built up before 1 April 2014 the pension payable is equal to:
- 1/160th of your final pay [5] times the period of your membership in the Scheme up to 31 March 2014.