Social Welfare Act, 2000

Payments after death — improvements.

25.—(1) Section 210 (2) (as amended by section 17 of the Act of 1999) of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) the insertion after paragraph (a) of the following paragraph:

“(aa) where a person in receipt of old age (contributory) pension, retirement pension, old age (non-contributory) pension or blind pension dies, and his or her spouse is in receipt of an old age (contributory) pension or a retirement pension in his or her own right, payment of the deceased person's pension shall continue to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death and shall, during that period, be made to such person and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and”,

and

(b) the insertion after paragraph (b) of the following paragraph:

“(bb) where a person is in receipt of one-parent family payment by virtue of having not more than one qualified child and that qualified child dies, payment of the one-parent family payment including the increase in respect of such child shall continue to be made for a period of 6 weeks after the date of death of the qualified child, and”.

(2) This section comes into operation on 6 April 2000.