Veterans Well-being Act

Marginal note:Eligibility — service-related death before age 65

• 22 (1) The Minister may, on application, pay, in accordance with section 23, an income replacement benefit to a member’s or a veteran’s survivor or orphan if the member or veteran dies before the day on which they attain the age of 65 years as the result of

  • (a) a service-related injury or disease; or

  • (b) a non-service-related injury or disease that was aggravated by service.

• Marginal note:When benefit payable

  (2) The income replacement benefit begins to be payable on the later of

  • (a) the first day of the month after the month in which the member or veteran dies, and

  • (b) the day that is one year before the first day of the month in which the Minister determines that the survivor or orphan is entitled to the benefit.

• Marginal note:Duration of benefit

  (3) Subject to section 26.2, the income replacement benefit ceases to be payable, as the case may be,

  • (a) to the survivor, on the first day of the month after the month in which the survivor dies; and

  • (b) to the orphan, on the earlier of

    • (i) the first day of the month after the month in which the orphan is no longer an orphan, and

    • (ii) the first day of the month after the month in which the orphan dies.