Frequently asked questions

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You can nominate any person. If you decide to nominate more than one person you must specify what percentage of the Death Grant you want each person to receive.  A change in your marital status or if the person you nominate dies between the date you complete the Nomination form and the date of death will cause your nomination to be declared invalid and the Death Grant would instead be paid to your legal personal representative unless you complete a new form.  

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Staffordshire County Council, as the administering authority for Staffordshire Pension Fund, has absolute discretion in deciding who should receive payment of a Death Grant. Details of how we operate this discretion and who we would make payment to can be found in our Administering Authority policy on our website here: 

Staffordshire Pension Fund can, however, take your own wishes into account: you can complete a Nomination form to tell Staffordshire Pension Fund who you would like to receive the payment in the event of your death and, if Staffordshire Pension Fund believe that the nomination is still valid in the event of your death, payment will be made directly to that person or people.

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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.

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