Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

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.

[1997 s14(1)]

(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.

[1997 s14(1)]

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

[1997 s14(1)]

(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.

[1997 s14(1)]

(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.

[2004 (MP) s6(1)(a)]

(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.

[2001 s15(1)(b)]

(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.