Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 407

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a person is receiving widow B pension; and

                     (b)  the person dies;

there is payable, to such person as the Secretary thinks appropriate, an amount equal to the amount that would have been payable to the person under this Act on the person's payday after the person's death if the person had not died.

             (2)  If an amount is paid under subsection (1) in respect of a person, the Commonwealth is not liable to any action, claim or demand for any further payment under that subsection in respect of the person.

Note:          for amounts owing to the recipient before the recipient's death see section 386.