DEATH - Objective, protection, conditions to grant benefits and rightholders - (Social Security General Scheme)

DEATH
Objective, protection, conditions to grant benefits and rightholders
(Social Security General Scheme)

» Objective and protection in death

The protection in the eventuality of death grants benefits in favour of the household, for death of one of its members and is materialized through the grant of two benefits: death allowance and survivor’s pension

Death allowance

Survivor’s pension

Consists of

Lump sum amount benefit, paid in one instalment

Monthly cash benefit that may be or not lifetime

Objective

It aims to compensate the increase of charges resulting from the death, with a view to facilitating, immediately, the reorganization of family life

It aims to compensate, for the future, the family members from the loss of work incomes or the retirement pension, received by the deceased

» Conditions to grant the benefits

Common to death’s allowance and the survivor’s pension

Specific conditions according to rightholders family members

Specific

» Death’s allowance

» The minimum period of contributions paid shall not be required

» Death’s proof

If there are no family members entitled to the allowance, the expenses incurred with the funeral may be reimbursed to the person who proves have incurred them, up to the limit of the death’s allowance amount not granted or of 6 times the Social Support Indexant if it is lower

Survivor’s pension

» Compliance with the 36 month period of contributions paid or equivalent situation to the entry of contributions; such period may be met by recourse to the total contributions paid to the Public Employee General Pension Scheme, provided that they are not overlapped

» If the pensioner is under a dependency situation, and may not perform the acts indispensable for meeting basic needs with autonomy, a dependency complement may be granted to him/her

» Rightholders

Death allowance and survivor’s pension

» Spouse, former spouse divorced and spouse judicially separated entitled to a maintenance allowance

» Person living as unmarried couple, co-habiting and sharing the same household

» Descendants aged < 18 years; < 25 years if they attended the secondary, complementary or higher education and are not working; < 27 years if they attended the master’s degree or post-graduation, do the graduate or doctoral thesis or end of course intership and are not working; without age limit, if holders of a disability that make them unfit for work

» Ascendants dependent on the deceased on the death’s date

The family members who integrate the spouses and former spouses and descendants groups, who meet the legal qualifying conditions prevail over the ascendants