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Social Security Act 2018

Assistance - Funeral grants

93: Funeral grant: eligibility if deceased person is child

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"Help to pay for a child's funeral if their family can't afford it"

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You might get help to pay for a child's funeral if the child has died. To get this help, the child's funeral expenses must not be able to be paid from the child's own money or assets, or from the money or assets of the people who were responsible for the child. The people responsible for the child must not have enough money to pay for the funeral, and they must not earn too much.

You will be looked at to see if you can get this help if you are the parent of the child who died, or if you were responsible for the child. Your income and assets will be checked to see if you can pay for the funeral. This check will look at how much you earn and how much money you have, and it will compare this to certain amounts set out in Part 1 of Schedule 5 and Part 2 of Schedule 5.

If you do not earn too much and you do not have enough money to pay for the funeral, you might be able to get help to pay for the child's funeral.

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Part 2Assistance
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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