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If you die in service, a pension will be paid to your eligible children who are under age 18, or between ages 18 and 25 if eligible full-time students.
Please note: Children born more than 10 months after your death are not eligible to receive the pension.
Children’s pensions are:
- paid fortnightly,
- not income tested by ESSSuper, and
- increased in line with any increase in the Consumer Price Index for all capital cities.
How much pension is payable?
If there are:
- Between 1 to 4 eligible children, a pension equal to 5% of your final average salary is payable to each child.
- More than 4 eligible children, a pension equal to 20% of your final average salary is divided equally.
Children aged between 18 and 25 who are full-time students
For every full-time student of a deceased member of the New Scheme aged 18 to 25, a separate Declaration of Eligibility for a Full Time Student Pension and TFN Declaration must be completed. These forms must then be completed annually.
The full-time student pension will cease at age 25 or before, if the child ceases to be a full-time student or fails to produce the annual declaration required.
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