diff --git a/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/core/src/grid-mrl-navigation.service.ts b/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/core/src/grid-mrl-navigation.service.ts
index 681f5ee4001..01498a92664 100644
--- a/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/core/src/grid-mrl-navigation.service.ts
+++ b/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/core/src/grid-mrl-navigation.service.ts
@@ -354,7 +354,8 @@ export class IgxGridMRLNavigationService extends IgxGridNavigationService {
 
     private hasNextVerticalPosition(prev = false) {
         if ((prev && this.activeNode.row === 0 && (!this.isDataRow(this.activeNode.row) || this.activeNode.layout.rowStart === 1)) ||
-            (!prev && this.activeNode.row >= this.grid.dataView.length - 1 && this.activeNode.column === this.lastColIndexPerMRLBlock())) {
+            (!prev && this.activeNode.row >= this.grid.dataView.length - 1 &&
+                this.activeNode.layout.rowStart === this.lastRowStartPerBlock())) {
             return false;
         }
         return true;
diff --git a/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/grid/src/grid-mrl-keyboard-nav.spec.ts b/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/grid/src/grid-mrl-keyboard-nav.spec.ts
index 902c33ca6ff..74a3cadd22e 100644
--- a/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/grid/src/grid-mrl-keyboard-nav.spec.ts
+++ b/projects/igniteui-angular/grids/grid/src/grid-mrl-keyboard-nav.spec.ts
@@ -297,6 +297,40 @@ describe('IgxGrid Multi Row Layout - Keyboard navigation #grid', () => {
                 GridFunctions.verifyGridContentActiveDescendant(GridFunctions.getGridContent(fix), cell.nativeElement.id);
             });
 
+            it('should not return an out of bounds row index when navigating down from the last layout row', () => {
+                fix.componentInstance.data = SampleTestData.contactInfoDataFull().slice(0, 10);
+                fix.componentInstance.colGroups = [{
+                    group: 'group1',
+                    columns: [
+                        { field: 'ID', rowStart: 1, colStart: 1 },
+                        { field: 'CompanyName', rowStart: 1, colStart: 2 },
+                        { field: 'ContactName', rowStart: 1, colStart: 3 },
+                        { field: 'ContactTitle', rowStart: 1, colStart: 4 },
+                        { field: 'Address', rowStart: 1, colStart: 5 },
+                        { field: 'City', rowStart: 2, colStart: 1 },
+                        { field: 'Region', rowStart: 2, colStart: 2 },
+                        { field: 'PostalCode', rowStart: 2, colStart: 3 },
+                        { field: 'Phone', rowStart: 2, colStart: 4 },
+                        { field: 'Fax', rowStart: 2, colStart: 5 }
+                    ]
+                }];
+                fix.detectChanges();
+
+                const grid = fix.componentInstance.grid;
+                const lastRowIndex = grid.dataView.length - 1;
+                const navService = grid.navigation as IgxGridMRLNavigationService;
+                const col = grid.getColumnByName('City');
+                navService.setActiveNode({
+                    row: lastRowIndex,
+                    column: col.visibleIndex,
+                    layout: navService.layout(col.visibleIndex)
+                });
+
+                const nextPos = navService.getNextVerticalPosition();
+                expect(nextPos.row).toBe(lastRowIndex);
+                expect(nextPos.column).toBe(navService.activeNode.column);
+            });
+
             it('should navigate up correctly', () => {
                 fix.componentInstance.colGroups = [{
                     group: 'group1',