Section 20A
Survivors’ pension
of Employees' Social Security Act 1969
If an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension, or if an insured person who has not attained *sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A, dies, survivors’ pension at the rates specified in the Eighth
Schedule shall be payable—
(a)
to the widow or the widower during life, and if there are two or more widows, the widow’s share of survivors’
pension specified in the Eighth Schedule shall be divided equally between the widows:
*NOTE─see section 12 of Act A1445 which comes into operation on 1 January 2013.
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Provided that if a widow or widower is entitled to more than one survivors’ pension, she or he shall be paid only one pension, being the pension with the higher rate.
(b)
to each child until marriage or until he attains the age of twenty-one years, whichever occurs earlier:
Provided that in the case of a child referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of “child” in section 2, survivors’ pension shall continue to be paid so long as he is incapable of supporting himself:
And provided further that the Organization may continue such pension to a child who is in receipt of education in any institution of higher learning but not beyond the first degree until he completes or ceases to receive such education or until he marries, whichever occurs earlier.
(c)
(Deleted by Act A675).
(2)
If an insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension, or if an insured person who has not attained *sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A, dies and does not leave a widow, or a widower who is wholly or mainly dependent on the earnings of the insured person at the time of her death, or a child, survivors’ pension shall be payable to the widowed mother and other dependants as specified in paragraph (b) of the definition of “dependant” in section 2, at the rates and for the duration specified in the Eighth Schedule.
(3)
The survivors’ pension shall accrue from the date of the death of the insured person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or the insured person who has not attained sixty years of age but has completed a full or reduced qualifying period as specified under section 17A:
Provided that where disablement benefit was payable to the deceased insured person on the date of death, the accrual date of survivors’
pension shall be the date following the date of death.
*NOTE─see section 12 of Act A1445 which comes into operation on 1 January 2013.
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