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Bereavement pension
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For the first 13 weeks following death, the husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner will also receive a bereavement pension.
What is a bereavement pension?
An explanation
For the first 13 weeks following death, the husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner will also receive a bereavement pension.
This tops up the survivor's pension to either:
- Your pensionable pay or assumed pensionable pay (if you die in service); or
- Pension (if you have started to receive your pension).
If you are no longer contributing to the firefighters’ pension scheme 2015 (i.e. you have deferred pension) which you are not yet receiving, no bereavement pension would be paid.
Children
and bereavement pensions
If no bereavement pension is payable to a husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner, any child/ren would receive the bereavement pension. If there is more than one child, the bereavement pension would be divided between them.
If, during the 13 weeks, one of the children stops being eligible the pension would be re-divided in equal portions between the remaining eligible children.
Payment of bereavement pension would also be made to an eligible child or children if a surviving partner entitled to the payment dies before the end of the 13 week payment period. The child or children would receive bereavement pension for the remaining part of the period.