Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 53T

             (1)  Part of each instalment of pension that is paid to the pensioner for a pension payday that occurs during the bereavement period is taken to be a bereavement payment. The part concerned is so much of the instalment as related to the child.

             (2)  All or any of the bereavement payments payable to the pensioner under subsection (1) may be paid in advance in a lump sum.