LUMP SUM CALCULATOR

This is how to work out the amount of the lump sum:

Method statement

Step 1.     Work out the amount that would have been payable to the woman on the woman's payday immediately after the day on which the woman died if:

               (a)     neither the woman nor the woman's partner had died; and

               (b)     where immediately before the partner's death the couple were an illness separated couple or a respite care couple--they were not such a couple.

Step 2.     Work out the amount that would have been payable to the partner on the first day that would have been a payday of the partner on or after the woman's payday referred to in Step 1 if:

               (a)     neither the woman nor the partner had died; and

               (b)     where immediately before the partner's death the couple were an illness separated couple or a respite care couple--they were not such a couple.

Step 3.     Add the results of Step 1 and Step 2: the result is called the combined pensioner couple rate .

Step 4.     Work out the amount that, but for sections 186 and 187, would have been payable to the woman on the woman's payday immediately after the day on which the woman died if the woman had not died: the result is called the woman's individual rate .

Step 5.     Take the woman's individual rate away from the combined pensioner couple rate: the result is called the partner's instalment component .

Step 6.     Work out the number of the partner's paydays in the period that commences on the day on which the woman dies and ends on the day on which the bereavement period ends.

Step 7.     Multiply the partner's instalment component by the number obtained in Step 4: the result is the amount of the lump sum payable under this section.