VEA → [2]
A person is eligible for disability compensation bereavement payment [3] if, immediately before the death of the veteran, they were a member of a couple [3], and the veteran:
Single veteran, and the veteran:
and:
When notified of a veteran's death, the eligibility for Disability Compensation Bereavement Payment needs to be determined and calculated. The table below illustrates the situations where a form needs to be completed.
If the veteran was... | Then the disability compensation bereavement payment |
a member of a couple | Is automatic and will be paid in a lump sum payment on the next available payday. There is no form to complete. |
a single member | Requires an application from the estate of the deceased veteran on the 'Claim for Bereavement Payment for Single Veterans' form. |
VEA → [5]
The table below describes what happens if the late veteran's partner dies before any bereavement payment is made. If the veteran and the partner die at the same time, (for example in a motor vehicle accident) the elder person is deemed under law to have died first.
If the partner of a deceased disability compensation payment recipient dies | Then the disability compensation payment |
Before the veteran | Is only payable if the veteran was in receipt of special rate or EDA and died in indigent circumstances More → [6]
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After the veteran's death, but before the Commission [3] has been notified of the veteran's death | Is paid to the estate of the widow/widower |
After the veteran's death, but before the Commission has been notified | Is paid to the estate of the veteran |
If a veteran lodges a claim for a disability compensation payment and dies before it is determined, any disability compensation bereavement payment may have to be recalculated once the claim is determined.
More → [7]
Section 98A(3) [13] VEA - Notification of partners death at same time or before deceased veterans death
Section 98A(4) [14] VEA - Bereavement payment made to estate where advice of veteran's death received after advice of widow's death
A bereavement payment is an amount payable in respect of a deceased pensioner that represents a continuation of the pensioner's entitlement for a period following the death (the bereavement period).
The payment can be made as:
According to Section 5E(2) [19]of the VEA [19]a person is a member of a couple, if they are:
The term “partnered” is also commonly used.
Disability compensation payment (known before 2022 as disability pension), for the purposes of service pension, income support supplement and veteran payment, means:
Please note that the Disability Compensation Payment is legally a pension by way of compensation under the VEA so that concessional benefits under state, territory and local government legislation to pensioners/pensions under the VEA are not denied.
According to Section 179 [20]of the VEA [20], the Commission is a body corporate under the name of Repatriation Commission.
Links
[1] https://clik.dva.gov.au/user/login?destination=node/15945%23comment-form
[2] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#tgt-cspol_part8_ftn82
[3] https://clik.dva.gov.au/%23
[4] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#tgt-cspol_part8_ftn83
[5] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#tgt-cspol_part8_ftn84
[6] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#tgt-cspol_part8_ftn85
[7] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#tgt-cspol_part8_ftn86
[8] clik://LEGIS/VEA/section 98A
[9] clik://LEGIS/VEA/section 98AA
[10] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#ref-cspol_part8_ftn82
[11] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-8-bereavement-assistance/83-funeral-benefits/835-indigent-circumstances
[12] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#ref-cspol_part8_ftn83
[13] clik://LEGIS/VEA/section 98A(3)
[14] clik://LEGIS/VEA/section 98A(4)
[15] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#ref-cspol_part8_ftn84
[16] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#ref-cspol_part8_ftn85
[17] https://clik.dva.gov.au/compensation-and-support-policy-library/part-8-bereavement-assistance/82-disability-compensation-bereavement-payment/823-calculation-disability-compensation-bereavement-payment
[18] https://clik.dva.gov.au/book/export/html/15945#ref-cspol_part8_ftn86
[19] http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Series/C2004A03268
[20] http://clik.dva.gov.au/legislation-library