Ill health
To qualify for an ill health related retirement, a EAPF approved independent registered medical practitioner (IRMP) must certify that you are permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of your current Scheme employment, and that you are not immediately capable of undertaking gainful employment (whether in local government or otherwise).
Secondly, the IRMP will give their opinion as to when, if ever, it is likely you will be capable of undertaking gainful employment, e.g. within 3 years, more than 3 years after retiring, or not prior to your normal pension age. Depending on this assessment, you will be placed into one of three ill health tiers and receive ill-health retirement benefits as follows: