FAQs on Nomination

With our new online beneficiary nomination form, you now have the choice to opt out of nominating a beneficiary.

You can nominate your spouse, relevant partner, or civil partner. You can only nominate a relevant partner if your former scheme allowed for a relevant partner to receive a pension after your passing away. You don't need to nominate any children.

A relevant partner is someone who you aren’t married to or in a civil partnership with, but who you live with as if you're married or in a civil partnership.

Yes, depending on the rules of your former scheme, you do need to fill out the online nomination form and nominate your spouse, civil partner, or relevant partner. If you don't, your beneficiary can still apply for compensation in the event of your passing away, but they’ll have to provide more evidence to prove their eligibility.

You don't need to formally declare your children. If you have eligible children, they will receive compensation until they are no longer eligible.

An eligible child is one who is your biological child (born or unborn at the date of your death), an adopted child, or child who was financially dependent upon you at the time of your passing away. And who is:

• under 18, or
• over 18, under 23 and in qualifying education, or
• over 18, under 23 and has a qualifying disability.

If you are unsure of whether your child’s disability or education falls into this category, please call our Contact Centre on 03306780000.

You're be able to see the nomination online immediately, if you've submitted evidence we'll review this within 10 working days.

• Validated: We've checked your record and hold the up-to-date evidence of your nomination. You don’t need to take any further action now.
• Not Validated: This means:
  1. We’ve either not received any evidence to support your nomination. In which case, your beneficiary may have to provide more evidence in the event of your passing away, or
  2. If there has been a change (i.e. address and/or name) to your nomination, it will show as 'Not Validated' until the changes are reviewed by our Member Services team, or
  3. Your nomination is more than 12 months old and you’ve yet to confirm the details are still correct.