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Children’s pension
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If you die a pension will be paid to a child, or children. This is in addition to any survivor’s pension.
What is a children's pension?
Looking after children
If you have been in the firefighters’ pension scheme 2015 for at least three months and you die (before or after retirement), a pension will be paid to a child, or children.
This is in addition to any survivor’s pension that is also payable to your husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner.
Eligible children
Qualifying as a child
A child is classed as someone who is financially dependent on you, under age 18 and:
- is your natural child;
- a step-child;
- an adopted child; or
- any other child who is either related to you or a child of your husband, wife, civil partner or cohabiting partner.
If the child is over age 18, they may also be eligible if they are also:
- Under age 23 and in full-time education or attending a course which lasts for at least a year; or
- Dependent on you because of permanent incapacity of mind or body.
A child will not normally be eligible if they:
- Are age 18 or older;
- Have stopped full-time education and are in paid employment; or
- Have married or entered into a civil partnership.
Children’s pension payments
What could they receive?
The value of a child's pension would depend upon the number of eligible children and if a survivor's pension is in payment.
Children’s pensions with no survivor
Paying death benefits
If you do not have a husband, wife, civil partner, or cohabiting partner who would have received the survivor’s pension, but have an eligible child(ren), the pension that would have been paid to the surviving partner would be paid to, or split evenly between, any eligible children.
This includes any bereavement pension payable for the first 13 weeks following death.