Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 45UUL

             (1)  This section sets out the only circumstances in which pension bonus bereavement payment will be payable after the death of the person concerned.

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  a person claims a pension bonus bereavement payment; and

                     (b)  the person dies; and

                     (c)  at the time of the person's death, the claim had been granted, but the person had not received the payment;

the payment is payable to the legal personal representative of the person.

             (3)  If:

                     (a)  a person claims a pension bonus bereavement payment; and

                     (b)  the person dies; and

                     (c)  at the time of the person's death, the claim had not been determined;

then:

                     (d)  the Commission must determine the claim after the person's death as if the person had not died; and

                     (e)  if the claim is granted--the payment is payable to the legal personal representative of the person.

             (4)  If a pension bonus bereavement payment is paid under subsection (2) or (3), the Commonwealth has no further liability to any person in respect of that bonus.