Originally Posted by
Herod
What would be justice would be an order for the pension to be paid directly to his wife's bank account. Why should she and the children suffer? Won't happen I know.
Sadly, I suspect the wife and children will suffer anyway (beyond the personal impact of his offence), whether or not they have/had a joint bank account. The bigger issue here is the individual has not served through to age 40 and will not have completed 20 years of service, so any pension entitlements are deferred to State Pension Age, there will be no lump sum and the only cash will be the resettlement grant. SPA for this person will be at least 30 years from now, so his only income from the public purse before then is likely to be restricted to unemployment benefit or job seekers allowance.