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KARL | 09:46 Tue 23rd Apr 2019 | Business & Finance
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A pure curiosity question:
Ex-employees of the UK government receive as an entitlement a pension. On the pensioner's death a surviving spouse becomes entitled to the same right but it a reduced rate (half ?). I know of at least two examples where the widow drew on such rights. I somehow imagine it has not always been so but, if the ex-employee and later pensioner is a female, does the surviving male spouse now receive the same residual rights ?
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yes - but I forget the details.
Thanks to the nice Civil Servant pension scheme I retired in 2004 at the age of 40 on health grounds and got my pension.
https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/members/publications/
Scroll down to near the bottom and you'll see "Pensions for Partners: A guide" click on that and you'll see a surviving female partner can get a pension.
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THECORBYLOON, I think you may just have made a "typo" as I was asking whether a male spouse and survivor of a female pensioner gets the right. In fact looking at your link it seems they do, even if only in confirmed partnership/cohabitation, so long as declared by the pensioner to the pensions authority. Thank you for the link.
Yup, quite right
It used to be the case (and, probably, still is) that the surviving spouse loses the pension entitlement if they remarry or even co-habit.
Karl, glad you raised this question, it's made me check my position.I receive a CS pension and me and 'er indoors' have been together 25yrs.
Thanks Thecorbyloon for the link ,I better get it sorted.

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