One of the benefits of the scheme is that an eligible co-habiting partner will receive a survivor's pension in the event of your death.  You have to have paid into the LGPS on or after 1 April 2008 for a pension to be payable to your eligible co-habiting partner. 

 

For a co-habiting partner to be eligible to receive a survivor's pension, certain qualifying conditions must be met.  A co-habiting partner who is eligible to receive a survivor's benefit is a partner who, at the date of your death, has met all of the following conditions for a continuous period of at least two years:

 

• you and your 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 co-habiting partner have been living together as if you were a married couple, or civil partners, and
• neither you or your co-habiting partner has been living with someone else as if you/they were a married couple or civil partners, and
• either your co-habiting partner is, and has been, financially dependent on you or you are, and have been, financially interdependent on each other.