Form - Nomination of cohabiting partner for survivor's pension

Benefits payable on your death include pensions for children, for a surviving spouse or registered civil partner and, provided the scheme member paid into the LGPS on or after 1 April 2008, for a nominated cohabiting partner.

You can nominate a cohabiting partner, of either opposite or same sex, by completing the nomination form and returning it to the address shown on the form.

The form includes detailed guidance notes. These begin as follows:

To be able to make a nomination, all of the following conditions must have applied to both you and your nominated co-habiting partner for a continuous period of at least 2 years on the date you both sign the nomination form:

  • both you and your nominated co-habiting partner are, and have been, free to marry each other or enter into a civil partnership with each other, and
  • you and your nominated co-habiting partner have been living together as if you were husband and wife, or civil partners, and
  • neither you or your nominated co-habiting partner have been living with someone else as if you/they were husband and wife or civil partners, and
  • either your nominated co-habiting partner is financially dependent on you or you are financially interdependent on each other.

Please do not complete this form if you are married or are in a registered civil partnership – your husband, wife or registered civil partner are automatically covered for a survivor benefit in the event of your death.

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