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The General Pension and Social Security Authority said that the effect of registering and subscribing to social insurance with the Authority extends to the insured’s family, which confirms the importance of the contributor making sure of his registration and payment of the monthly contributions due on his behalf.
As part of the awareness campaign launched by the authority later under the slogan “Explore your benefits”, Hind Al-Suwaidi, Director of the Insurance Benefits Department, explained that the first benefits that the beneficiaries receive after the death of the pensioner is the death grant, as well as the compensation resulting from the death of the insured, whatever the cause of death.
Al Suwaidi said, upon the death of the pensioner or the owner of the pension, an amount equivalent to the pension due to them for the month of death and the following three months is paid. This grant is paid in one payment to the dependents at the time of death. According to the provisions of Islamic Sharia, and if the death was the result of a work injury, the heirs are entitled to a compensation of 75,000 dirhams, distributed among them in accordance with the provisions of Islamic Sharia, and the insured is entitled to this compensation if the work injury results in a total disability.
She explained that upon death, the beneficiaries of the retirement pension, namely widows, children, parents, brothers and husband, are listed according to the eligibility conditions contained in the Pensions Law, where the widow is entitled to a share in the pension of her deceased husband, and she may combine her pension or salary from work and her share from her husband, and her share is cut off. She does not return to her if she is divorced, and if the widow dies or remarries, her share will go to her sons and daughters from her husband to be distributed among them equally. Other beneficiaries make her entitled to three quarters of the pension, and if there are several widows, the pension is distributed among them equally, regardless of the amount of the due share. As for the husband, he is entitled to a share in the pension of the deceased wife if at the time of death he was suffering from a health disability that prevents him from earning and he did not have a salary or pension from any authority in the state.
In this context, she said, we should draw attention to an important matter, which is that the pension of the deceased wife is distributed to the eligible relatives of her in the same way as the man, as the Pension Law equals between men and women in all rights and privileges, including the distribution of the pension to the beneficiaries.
As for the sons and daughters of the deceased, she added, the girl deserves a share of the retirement pension provided that she is unmarried, and her share is cut off in the event of marriage, joining work or practicing a profession, and returning her share in the event she is divorced or widowed, provided that there is no other salary or pension.
The son is entitled to a share in the father’s or mother’s pension upon their death if his age at the time of death was less than 21 years, and the share ceases when he reaches 21 years. He reaches the age of (28), whichever comes first, and the pension continues to be paid to the son after he reaches the age of (21) if he is unable to earn. Raising it to the minimum set by law, and if the cause of the severance is removed, the pension of those people will be reduced by the value of what has devolved to them due to the severance.
Solidarity in law sometimes extends to the inclusion of the sons and daughters, as if the father dies during his father’s life and they do not have a pension on behalf of their father, their father’s share is transferred to them from his father, and if the father dies after entitlement to the pension on his father’s behalf, their father’s share in the pension is transferred to them, and it is applied in The two previous cases are the provisions for cutting the pension of the eligible sons and daughters.
With regard to the parents, for the father to be entitled to a share in the pension of the deceased son, it is required that he be dependent on his son during his lifetime, while the mother deserves a share in the pension of the deceased son if she is widowed or divorced and her husband is a dependent of her deceased son during his lifetime, and she does not have a salary or Another pension from any party in the country.
As for the brothers and sisters, they are entitled to a share in the pension of their deceased brother whenever they depend on him for the maintenance of his life, and the entitlement is linked to the conditions for cutting the pension from the eligible sons and daughters.
