Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 513A

                   If:

                     (a)  a person is receiving parenting payment; and

                     (b)  the person is a member of a couple; and

                     (c)  the person dies; and

                     (d)  the person:

                              (i)  was qualified at the time of the person's death for payments under Subdivision A in relation to the death of a PP child; or

                             (ii)  would have been qualified if the person had not died; and

                     (e)  the person's partner claims the payments referred to in paragraph (d) within 13 weeks after the death of the child;

there is payable to the partner of the person an amount equal to the amount of parenting payment that would have been payable to the person under Subdivision A if the person had not died.