Social Security Payments

Any prescribed child under 16 living with the employee at the date of death will be deemed to be wholly dependent (section 4 (5) refers).

However, section 4 (7) provides that, in considering 'other income' and its effect on dependency, the following cannot be taken into account:

• family payment under the Social Security Act 1991;

• any supplementary payments made in association with family payment;

• child disability payment; and

• the double orphan's pension.