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Who Is Entitled To Benefits?

Widow/widower/surviving civil partner
Benefits are payable to the surviving partner to whom the member was legally
married/in civil partnership with at the date of death. No benefits are payable:
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if the marriage/civil partnership had been legally dissolved

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to common-law partners.

Children
Children’s benefits are payable to each legitimate, adopted or financially
dependent child who is:
 under the age of 17; or
 over the age of 17 but has been in continuous full-time education or in training
for a trade, profession or vocation since (their pension must cease by age
23); or
 prevented from carrying out a normal full-time job by permanent illness or
physical or mental handicap which began whilst a child.

Nominee
A nominee is a person or an organisation eg charity, nominated by the
deceased, on a valid nomination, to receive all or part of any lump sum death
grant that may become payable. It is not possible to nominate someone to
receive a pension.

Estate
The estate is the money, property and possessions left by the deceased. It
excludes any part of the lump sum death grant paid to the nominee(s). It is
distributed by the executor or personal representative of the deceased to the
person(s) entitled to it after all outstanding debts have been paid.

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