I may have mentioned this before but just wanted to check I was right.
Is it true that your RAF pension dies with you?
Your spouse gets nothing?
Thank you
says that the survivor gets the moolah and EVEN if the widow remarries then she keeps the RAF pension
and yes the Royal British Legon does do advice
( these things are written for clarity and it crossed my mind whether survivor meant the fella at the front line surviving gunfire OR the spouse surviving - it is clearly the spouse IMO )
Its not particularly clear as the pension as changed 3 times - well if she doesn't complete the paperwork we will never know.
Which is what I told her today.
It's not the widow that remarried her though, PP, as I understand it- the RAf dad was widowed and then remarried. We are wondering if it depends on the timings- eg was he already drawing the pension when he remarried. Anyway, British Legion or RAF pensions can advise when they have all the details
// We are wondering if it depends on the timings-//
yes it almost certainly will
and as for should I let the RAF pension scheme know I am now the wife, answer: yes I would have thought so
My own pension has different rules on what the widow gets if she marries before the pensioner's pension is vested as to afterwards. - and yes I was seriously considering helping a friend with a widows pension after I died ( by er marrying her) ( quite alot less)