Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:98b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 98B
Character Range: 1422176–1423092

98B  Funeral benefits—automatic grant to estate of certain deceased veterans
 (1) The Commission is to grant a benefit (funeral benefit) to the estate of a deceased veteran if, immediately before the veteran died:
 (a) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 22(4); or
 (b) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom section 24 applied; or
 (c) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had been increased under section 27 because the veteran was incapacitated from a war‑caused injury or a war‑caused disease of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the Table in subsection 27(1); or
 (d) the Commission was satisfied that the veteran had, before the MRCA commencement date, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the veteran was rendering operational service.
 (2) The amount of the funeral benefit is $2,000.