Ford private pension

C2000

Need some advice , my father was a ford worker with a good private pension, he left work early due to medical retirement,  he then passed away, and  my mother received 50% of his pension, she has since remarried (was 56 when remarried) 
Will she lose the pension she receives? 
She is adamant she won't lose it, but I think she will. 
Hoping someone can help .

ElephantBoy57

Many widowers did lose their pensions if they remarried, but some pension providers changed the rules. Do you know which company the pension is with, when the pension was claimed may also be a factor.

Marcon

C2000 said:

Need some advice , my father was a ford worker with a good private pension, he left work early due to medical retirement,  he then passed away, and  my mother received 50% of his pension, she has since remarried (was 56 when remarried) 
Will she lose the pension she receives? 
She is adamant she won't lose it, but I think she will. 
Hoping someone can help .

Why do you think she will lose the pension? It used to be very common in public sector schemes for a pension to cease if the surviving spouse remarried, but has always been very rare in private sector schemes. As to who could help - reading the scheme booklet if she can find it would confirm, or asking the scheme direct (it's likely they will find out regardless, not least because her pension is probably going to be paid to her in her new married name).

hyubh

Private sector schemes 'back in the day' would typically have trustee discretion, public sector schemes a hard rule that the dependant pension ceased. The latter were (mostly) changed in the noughties, however as there's no covering legalisation involved, your mother will just have to ask the scheme administrator outright, i.e. this will be a scheme-specific (potentially even scheme section-specific) thing.