My Wife's Pension

[Bexford52]

My wife passed away on 26th December with cancer. She was 59.
I have looked at her work pension letters and they state that I will be entitled to half her occupational pension from when she would have been 60.
I have received a letter confirming the pension will be payable from November this year and the figures are correct.
I am concerned that the last line say's this pension is payable at the discretion of the trustee.
I have contacted the pension fund and they have said they may refuse to pay it if they ever found out I murdered my wife for example but the person said this will obviously not happen as the cause of my wife's death is clearly not my fault.
Does anybody know if this letter could mean that the pension may be stopped for example if the pension scheme gets short of funds.

Bexford

[factor-fiction]

Hello again!
Every pension of this sort contains this line so don't worry.
Is Ed around?

[bednobs]

hmm, suspended i see. Never mind, i'm sure you can get one of your alteregos to answer for you with two or three "cases" they know about

[themas]

Being a simple soul, I've no idea what the previous 2 answers are about!

Assuming this is a genuine question the answer is that it depends on the terms of the pension. These will be set out in the trust deed (almost certainly a very long incomprehensible - to the layman - document). However, I think it would be very unusual for some pensions in payment to be penalised more than others if the fund was short of money.

[factor-fiction]

Hi themas. Good answer -in a way it's a shame the OP isn't now able to mark yours as Best Answer.

Just to explain the first two answer: this seems to be yet another question from a poster who has been suspended many times before and the Ed is aware of what's happening I'm sure. It seems the poster wants to make it known that he/she is the same poster returning as he/she makes no attempt to vary their style and form of words and those of us with too much time on our hands seem to be able to spot him/her immediately just as other posters could spot OWLS or TROLLS- although usually he/she slips up anyway eventually by getting his/her user names mixed up or getting the story all muddled.

Nevertheless your answer may be helpful to others and on balance I hope the Ed allows these threads to remain

[andrew1707]

OOOh this is exciting...just like having secret agents in our midst.

I must pay more attention...trust no-one!