Can anyone tell me about pension going to spouse upon death?

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Sorry, know its a bit gloomy.

My dad is terminally ill and currently has a good pension. Teaching pension if that makes a difference.

He was talking aout this to me today and says he doesn't know if his wife will continue to get anything after he's died. I think she will. I know with my private pension my dh would get some of it (not full amount) if I died first.

Other thing is, my parents are divorced and as part of the settlement my mum gets a proportion of his pension every month. Will this stop when he dies?

OP there is a simple answer to your question.

If your mum got a pension sharing order then she'll have her own pension that survives your dad's death. If she got a pension attachment order she can only keep her income for so long as your dad lives.

Attachment orders were brought in in July 1996. Sharing orders came in for petitions started after 1st December 2000. I think you can be confident if they divorced after this date it will have been a sharing order.

If she gets a P60 each year from the TPA then she has a sharing order.