Survivor benefit is an old-fashioned technical term for payments from the 1st or 2nd pillar in the event of death. These payments go to the dependents of the deceased person, namely to the widow or widower and their children up to a certain age. As a rule, these are pension payments. In the 1st pillar, the state pension, there are various restrictions, for example, childless women only receive the widow's pension if they were at least 45 years old and were married for at least five years. Men only receive the widower's pension if they have children under the age of 18. In the case of both sexes, the pension payment to the surviving spouse ceases in the event of remarriage. In the 2nd pillar, payments are also made to widowers or widows and to orphans. Depending on the pension fund regulations, children receive an orphans' pension either until the age of 18, or until the age of 20, or as long as they are completing their first professional training, but no longer than until the age of 25. With many pension funds, partners are also covered; with others, a marriage must have existed for five years for a pension to be paid out. A lump-sum death benefit is often also insured, which is paid out once.