36.6.1 Spouses and children

The spouse and the natural or adopted child of a client (if also a prescribed child) are to be deemed to be wholly dependent on the client if they lived with the client at the time of the injury.

This occurs by operation of a deeming provision in death cases (S4(5) of the SRCA). The same approach is also taken in incapacity cases in the interests of consistency of policy.