Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

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Death benefit for widows and widowers and increases for qualified children, etc.

[1993 s60; 1997 s14(1)]

81.—(1) Death benefit shall be payable to the widow or widower of the deceased.

(2) Death benefit shall be a pension at the weekly rate set out in column (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 , and where the beneficiary has attained pensionable age and is living alone, that rate shall be increased by the amount set out in column (6) of that Part.

(3) A pension under subsection (2) shall not be payable for any period after the remarriage of the beneficiary.

(4) A beneficiary shall be disqualified for receiving a pension under this section if and so long as he or she and any person are cohabiting as husband and wife.

(5) The weekly rate of pension under subsection (2) shall be increased by the amount set out in column (4) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of each qualified child who normally resides with the beneficiary.

(6) The weekly rate of pension under subsection (2) shall be increased by the amount set out in column (7) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 where the beneficiary has attained the age of 80 years.

(7) The weekly rate of pension under subsection (2) shall be increased by the amount set out in column (8) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 where the beneficiary has attained pensionable age and is ordinarily resident on an island.