Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

VETERANS' ENTITLEMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 98B

             (1)  The Commission is to grant a benefit ( funeral benefit ) to the estate of a deceased veteran if, immediately before the veteran died:

                     (a)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 22(4); or

                     (b)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom section 24 applied; or

                     (c)  he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had been increased under section 27 because the veteran was incapacitated from a war-caused injury or a war-caused disease of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the Table in subsection 27(1); or

                     (d)  the Commission was satisfied that the veteran had, before the MRCA commencement date, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the veteran was rendering operational service.

             (2)  The amount of the funeral benefit is $2,000.