Veterans' Entitlements Legislation Amendment (2007 Election Commitments) Act 2008 (48 of 2008)

Schedule 3   Extension of disability pension bereavement payments

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

3   After section 98A

Insert:

98AA Bereavement payments in respect of certain single, disabled veterans

(1) The Commission must pay an amount ( bereavement payment ), worked out in accordance with subsection (2), to the estate of a deceased veteran if:

(a) immediately before the veteran died, he or she was not a member of a couple; and

(b) immediately before the veteran died, he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom subsection 22(4) or section 24 applied; and

(c) the veteran died in indigent circumstances; and

(d) an application for the bereavement payment is made in accordance with sections 111 and 112.

(2) The amount of the bereavement payment is 6 times the amount of the pension that would have been payable to the veteran, if he or she had not died, on the first pension pay day after he or she died.

Note: The heading to section 98A is altered by inserting " partnered, " before " disabled veterans ".