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Death Benefits - Death of an STSS Member or Pensioner
The STSS will pay a lump sum death grant if:
- you die while you are employed in pensionable employment;
- you die while you are paying current added years; or
- you die within a year of leaving pensionable employment (because of ill-health) and you have not been receiving an ill health pension.
In these cases, there is no minimum qualifying period and the death gratuity will be three times your pensionable salary. If you die during further pensionable employment after retirement including phased retirement the STSS will pay a lump sum, worked out using three times your pensionable salary less any lump sum benefits you have previously been paid. If you die after leaving pensionable employment the death grant will be based upon:
- your actual reckonable service if you have 2 or more years reckonable service; or
- your pension contributions plus interest of 3% if you have less than 2 years reckonable service.
A Death Grant Nomination Form is available from the Forms and Leaflets section of this site, should you wish to nominate individual(s) to receive any death grant payable.