Veterans Well-being Act

Marginal note:Division of award

55 If a disability award is payable to a survivor or a person who was, at the time of a member’s or veteran’s death, a dependent child, the following rules apply:

• (a) if there is a survivor but no person who was a dependent child, the survivor is entitled to 100% of the disability award;

• (b) if there is a survivor and one or more persons who were dependent children,

  • (i) the survivor is entitled to 50% of the disability award, and

  • (ii) the persons who were dependent children are entitled, as a class, to 50% of the disability award, divided equally among them; and

• (c) if there are one or more persons who were dependent children but no survivor, each of those children is entitled to the amount obtained by dividing the disability award by the number of those dependent children.