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What happens to your retirement benefits when you pass away?

by sowetosunrisenews
February 17, 2025
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What happens to your retirement benefits when you pass away?
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For many people, their pension fund is not just a financial asset – it’s the cornerstone of their future security. Imagine after decades of hard work, that nest egg becoming the legacy you leave behind.  

It’s no surprise that for those planning their estate and drafting their Wills, ensuring the protection and distribution of these funds is often at the forefront of their minds. After all, what’s more valuable than the foundation of a lifetime’s work?  

In South Africa, many pension fund members mistakenly believe that since we have freedom of testation, they can specify who should receive the benefits from their retirement funds in their Wills. 

Retirement funds, which include retirement annuities, pension funds, provident funds, and preservation funds, are governed by the Pension Funds Act. Section 37C of the Act stipulates what should happen with the death benefits payable on the death of a member.  

New employees are often requested to complete a beneficiary nomination for their pension fund and employee benefits. It is important to know that this nomination of nominees is not binding on the trustees of the pension fund when allocating death benefits but can assist them in identifying dependants more quickly. 

In terms of s37C, pension fund trustees must ensure that a member’s death benefits are distributed to dependants and/or nominees. Dependants refer to any person to whom the member was legally liable for maintenance, a person financially dependent on the member before death, the spouse, and/or the child/ren of the fund member. 

Trustees have 12 months to identify and trace all dependants. Where there are dependants and nominees (who are not dependants), s37C (1)(bA) stipulates that the trustees pay the benefit, or such portion thereof, to such dependant or nominee, and in such proportions as the board may deem equitable.  

Where the fund cannot trace any dependants within 12 months of the member’s death, and the member didn’t nominate a beneficiary/nominee, the death benefits will then be paid into the deceased member’s estate. Beneficiaries (dependants and/or nominees) receiving death benefits can decide to receive their benefits in a lump sum (in which case, tax will be deducted) or purchase an annuity with the benefits. 

But what about group life cover? Most employee benefit schemes include membership to a pension fund and some type of group life and disability cover. The life cover amount is usually a lump sum equal to three to five times an employee’s annual salary. With these typical ‘approved schemes’, the life cover amount at death forms part of the death benefits, which, along with the pension fund value, will be distributed to dependants in terms of s37C. 

John Strydom, Product Head at FNB Fiduciary  Soweto Sunrise News

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