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Widow's pension denied

immy1 · 2018-09-22 14:00:53

Hi - I am trying to help my sister whose husband died very recently. He was in receipt of a pension from Stanhope Trust ( previosly GEC 1972 scheme) at the time of his death. She informed the Trust that her husband had died and has since received a letter stating that she is not entitled to a widow's pension because 'Under…

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immy1 Posts: 172 Forumite

23 September 2018 at 5:22PM

On the basis of what you say about the Pension Ombudsman then I'll contact the pension scheme again and ask the suggested questions regarding the nominee form and also whether he was ever contracted out of Serps. If by some miracle they agree to pay the pension I'll post back with what they say.

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