Employees' Social Security Act 1969 · Updated to 1 Oct 2024 · Part III · Benefits
26. Dependants’ benefit
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When an insured person dies from a work injury, dependants' benefit goes to the dependants. A widow or widower gets it for life, and two or more widows split the widow's share equally. Each child gets it until marriage or the age of twenty-one years. With no widow or child, the widowed mother and other dependants get it.
Summary · Drafted with AI, checked against the official text on 30 Sep 2026.
If an insured person dies as a result of an employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act (whether or not he was in receipt of any periodical payment for temporary disablement in respect of the injury) dependants’ benefit at the rates specified in the
Fourth Schedule shall be payable to his dependants as follows:
to the widow or widower during life, and, if there are two or more widows, the widow’s share of dependants’ benefit specified in the Fourth Schedule shall be divided equally between the widows:
Provided that if a widow or a widower is entitled to more than one dependants’ benefits, she or he shall be paid only one benefit, being the benefit with the higher rate.
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,
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dependants’ benefit shall continue to be paid so long as he is incapable of supporting himself:
And provided further that the Organization may continue such benefit to any 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.
(Deleted by Act A675).
If an insured person who dies as a result of an employment injury does not leave a widow or child, dependants’ benefit 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 Fourth Schedule.