Section 98B — Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986: Funeral benefits—automatic grant to estate of certain deceased veterans

(1) The Commission is to grant a benefit (funeral benefit) to the estate of a deceased veteran if, immediately before the veteran died: (a) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 22(4); or (b) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom section 24 applied; or (c) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had been increased under section 27 because the veteran was incapacitated from a war-caused injury or a war-caused disease of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the Table in subsection 27(1); or (d) the Commission was satisfied that the veteran had, before the MRCA commencement date, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the veteran was rendering operational service. (2) The amount of the funeral benefit is $2,000.