Employees' Social Security Act 1969 · Updated to 1 Oct 2024 · Part III · Benefits
17A. Qualifying conditions for survivors’ pension
Feedback & supportSubject to this Act, survivors’ pension shall be payable on completion of a full or reduced qualifying period.
The deceased insured person shall be deemed to have completed a full qualifying period under subsection (1) if—
monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than twenty-four months during the period of forty consecutive months preceding the month of his death; or
monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than two-thirds of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four.
A deceased insured person shall be deemed to have completed a reduced qualifying period under subsection (1) if monthly contributions have been paid in respect of him for not less than
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one-third of the number of complete months comprised in the period falling between the date when contributions first become payable by him under this Act and the date of his death, provided that the total number of monthly contributions paid during the aforesaid period shall be at least twenty-four.