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(1) A person who is required or entitled to become a member of the social security scheme shall furnish to the employer particulars concerning the member’s beneficiaries for the receipt of benefits on the death of that member.

(2) The employer shall enter the particulars in the prescribed form and obtain the signature or thumbprint impression of the person concerned and forward it to the Trust.

(3) An employer shall ask a potential employee to state in writing

(a) whether or not that person is a member of the scheme;

(b) the member’s account number;

(c) the name and particulars of the last establishment if any, where that person was employed; and

(d) whether anyone has been nominated to receive the benefits as survivor.

(4) Where that person was a member of the scheme, the old account number and the nominated beneficiaries shall continue to be operative, and the Trust’s attention shall be drawn to this by the new employer.

(5) Subject to subsection (3), a member of the scheme is free to update the nomination and shall review the nominations at least once every five years and forward the nomination to the Trust.

(6) Where payment of benefit has been made to a person validly nominated or varied by a Court order under this section, no other person shall have any other claim against the Trust.

(7) Despite subsection (6), where a member of the scheme has a child sixty percent of the survivors benefit shall be distributed to the child and forty percent to the persons nominated by the member.