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CHILDREN'S PENSIONS AFTER THE DEATH OF A COUNCILLOR MEMBER
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 Notional Pension Entitlement* x 1/4
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Calculated by reference to the lesser of the total membership the deceased would otherwise have accrued by age 65, or 10 years. If at the date of death they had built up five or more years total membership, and had not previously retired from the LGPS on health grounds, the notional amount will, if higher, be calculated by reference to the total membership the deceased would have had if they had retired due to ill health.
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Two or more Children where Survivor's Pension payable
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 Deceased's Notional Pension Entitlement* x 1/2
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Calculated by reference to the lesser of the total membership the deceased would otherwise have accrued by age 65, or 10 years. If at the date of death they had built up five or more years total membership, and had not previously retired from the LGPS on health grounds, the notional amount will, if higher, be calculated by reference to the total membership the deceased would have had if they had retired due to ill health.
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One Child where NO Survivor's Pension payable |
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Deceased's Notional Pension Entitlement* x 1/3
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Calculated by reference to the lesser of the total membership the deceased would otherwise have accrued by age 65, or 10 years. If at the date of death they had built up five or more years total membership, and had not previously retired from the LGPS on health grounds, the notional amount will, if higher, be calculated by reference to the total membership the deceased would have had if they had retired due to ill health.
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Two or more Children where NO Survivor's Pension payable
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Deceased's Notional Pension Entitlement* x 2/3
= Annual Child's Pension
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*Calculated by reference to the lesser of the total membership the deceased would otherwise have accrued by age 65, or 10 years. If at the date of death they had built up five or more years total membership, and had not previously retired from the LGPS on health grounds, the notional amount will, if higher, be calculated by reference to the total membership the deceased would have had if they had retired due to ill health.
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