Question NW2271 to the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
12 July 2023 - NW2271
Cebekhulu, Inkosi RN to ask the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
(1) What happens to the surviving dependents of military veterans who have now passed on after waiting since last year for the promised grants to be rolled out to them as beneficiaries without much success? (2) Whether such surviving dependents of beneficiaries will be accommodated in the specified grants; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details surrounding the matter?
Reply:
1) Section 5(2) of the Military Veterans Pension Benefit Regulations state that. Upon the death of a Military Veteran, a qualifying dependent / widow / widowers of a Military Veteran who immediately prior to his or her death, was in receipt of a pension benefit, may receive up to 50% of the pension benefit with effect from the first day of the month following immediately on the month in which the Military Veteran died, provided they are not receiving any form of State pension above the mentioned 50% threshold from the Military Veteran pension benefit.
2) This benefit is applicable to the main member as stipulated in Act 18 of 2011 in section S. (1) (h) of the benefits relating to a military veteran