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Teachers' Pension Scheme (PO-23848)

Complainant: Mrs S
Complaint Topic: Benefits: overpayment (recovery of)
Ref: PO-23848
Outcome: Partly upheld
Appeal outcome: None
Respondent: Teachers' Pensions
Type: Pension complaint or dispute
Date:
Appeal: No

Ombudsman’s Determination

Outcome

I partially uphold Mrs S’s complaint against Teachers’ Pensions and find in her favour on some of the points of law referred to me.

Complaint summary

Mrs S has complained that Teachers’ Pensions is seeking to recover an overpayment of her widow’s pension under a TPS regulation which provides for a spouse’s pension payable after the member’s death to cease on subsequent remarriage or cohabitation.

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