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SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 512

Death of PP child--continuation of qualification for 14 weeks

  (1)   If:

  (a)   a person is receiving parenting payment for a dependent child; and

  (b)   the child dies; and

  (c)   following the child's death, there is no other dependent child of the person who is a PP child;

the person is qualified for parenting payment in respect of the child, for the period of 14 weeks that starts on the day of the child's death.

  (2)   If a person is qualified under subsection   (1), the person's parenting payment rate during the 14 weeks is to be worked out as if the child had not died.


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