Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1999 - SECT 58

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  an amount representing a social security payment (other than pension bonus or pension bonus bereavement payment) is payable to a person; and

                     (b)  the person dies; and

                     (c)  another person applies to receive the amount; and

                     (d)  the application is made:

                              (i)  within 26 weeks after the death; or

                             (ii)  within such further period as is allowed by the Secretary in the special circumstances of the case;

the Secretary may pay the amount to the person who, in the Secretary's opinion, is best entitled to it.

             (2)  If the Secretary pays an amount of a social security payment under subsection (1), the Commonwealth has no further liability to any person in respect of that amount.