If you are over age 75 at the date of your death, Staffordshire Pension Fund cannot pay a Death Grant.
If you hold both Active records and Deferred or Pension records after 1 April 2014 and then die, the Fund that holds the Active record is responsible for paying the Death Grant. The amount that they pay will be the higher of the total Death Grant payable in respect of all Active records or the total Death Grant payable in respect of all Deferred and Pension records. This is the case even if you have records with different Local Government Pension Scheme funds.
For example, if you have an Active record with Derbyshire Pension Fund, but have a Pension record with Staffordshire Pension Fund and a Deferred record with West Midlands Pension Fund, Derbyshire Pension Fund will be the ones who pay out a Death Grant, but they will check the value of the Death Grants that would have been due from Staffordshire Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund and, if the total of these is larger than the amount they have calculated, they will pay the higher value. Staffordshire Pension Fund and West Midlands Pension Fund will not pay a Death Grant.