asked the Minister for the Environment the weekly occupational pension and gratuity payable to a pensionable servant retiring in November 1980 after 40 years service, including three years co-ordinated service on retiring pay of £80 indicating: (a) the pension element attributable to 37 years old service, (b) the pension element attributable to three years co-ordinated service, (c) the total pension, (d) the gratuity and (e) if the pensioner died six months later, the amount of occupational widow's pension payable weekly.
Written Answers. - Public Service Pensions.
415.
Following is the information: (a) £37; (b) £1.16 (taking old age (contributory) pension as £24.50 per week in May 1980); (c) £38.16; (d) £6,240; (e) £19.08.
Note: It is presumed that gratuity referred to at (d) is a reference to lump sum. The widow's pension would be at the rate of £38.16 per week for the first month following the servant's death in lieu of the amount set out at (e). (It is assumed there are no dependent children).
416.
asked the Minister for the Environment the occupational pension payable to a pensionable servant who retired on £46 pay:—(a) on 30 May 1977 having opted for the 1977 scheme and the occupational pension payable (b) in July, 1980, and (c) the contributory occupational widow's pension payable in November 1980 if the servant had died in October 1980, if that servant was a road worker and that road worker's national average pay, effective in July 1980, was in payment to that category of servant.
The amount of the pensions payable would be dependent on the pensionable local service of the servant concerned and, in the case of the widow's pension, where the servant retired on the grounds of permanent infirmity, his potential service to age 65.
417.
asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of ex-gratia widow's pension payable to the widow of a pensionable servant who died in April 1977 on retiring weekly pay of £46 (a) in May 1977, and (b) in July of each subsequent year to-date.
The amount of the widow's ex-gratia pension would depend on the following: (i) whether the servant died in service or after retirement; (ii) the extent of his pensionable local service; (iii) where he died in service or where he died subsequent to retiring on the grounds of permanent infirmity, the extent of his potential reckonable service from the date of such retirement or death to age 65, and (iv) the pay increases which would be applicable to his former grade since his employment ceased.
418.
asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of pensionable widow's pension payable to the widow of: (a) a pensionable officer, (b) a pensionable servant after 40 years' service, including three years co-ordinated service in the case of the pensionable servant, on retiring pay of £80 per week on the assumption that the officer and the servant died six months after receipt of pensionable pension.
(a) £20; (b) £19.08. For the purpose of co-ordinating the servant's occupational pension with the social welfare pension the amount of the old age contributory pension applicable to a single man was taken as £24.50.
For a period of one month subsequent to his death, in lieu of the amounts at (a) and (b) above, the widow's pension in each case would be at a rate equivalent to her late husband's pension. In these cases this would be £40 in the case of (a) and £38.16 in the case of (b). (It is assumed there are no dependent children).