Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Funeral grants

93: Funeral grant: eligibility if deceased person is child

You could also call this:

“When you can get money to help pay for a child's funeral”

You can get help paying for a child’s funeral if the child’s family can’t afford it. This help is called a funeral grant. Here’s when a child’s funeral might be eligible for this grant:

The child’s own money (called their estate) isn’t enough to pay for the funeral. This is checked before any other debts are paid.

The people who were responsible for looking after the child (usually the parents) don’t have enough money to pay for the funeral. This is checked by looking at their money and things they own, except for some special items that aren’t counted.

The yearly income of the people responsible for the child is less than a certain amount. This amount is listed in a special document called Schedule 5.

If all these things are true, then the child’s funeral might be eligible for the grant to help pay for it.

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Part 2 Assistance
Funeral grants

93Funeral grant: eligibility if deceased person is child

  1. A deceased person meets the criteria in this section if—

  2. the person is a child; and
    1. the person’s funeral expenses cannot be paid from the total of—
      1. the deceased person’s assessable estate before the payment of any other debts; and
        1. the combined assets, other than non-assessable assets, of the person’s parents, or of any other person or persons, who were liable in law to maintain the deceased person on the date of death in excess of the amount in clause 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 5; and
        2. the combined annual income of the person’s parents, or any other person or persons, who were liable in law to maintain the deceased child on the date of death is less than 52 times the appropriate amount in Part 2 of Schedule 5.
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