Type of survivors’ benefit and maximum available benefit

(1) Where at the date of his death the deceased insured person was in receipt of an invalidity pension or retirement pension or would have been entitled to an invalidity pension had he been deemed to be an invalid or to retirement pension, 78 Social Security survivors’ benefit shall be a periodical payment (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “pension”): Provided that where a person was in receipt of survivor’s benefit at any time before the 2nd November, 1987, he shall continue to receive such benefit irrespective of whether or not the deceased insured person concerned was entitled to invalidity pension or retirement pension. (2) Where at the date of his death the deceased insured person would have been entitled to invalidity grant had he been deemed to be an invalid, or to retirement grant, survivors’ benefit shall be a lump sum payment (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “grant”) of no less than eight hundred dollars. (3) The total rate of amount of benefit payable to all persons entitled to survivors’ benefit shall not exceed the amount of periodical payment or lump sum payment which would have been payable to the deceased insured person under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “maximum available survivors’ (4) Subject to Regulations 31 to 34, survivors’ benefit shall be payable to– (a) the widow or widower (as the case may be) of the relevant insured person and to his children; or (b) a parent of the relevant insured person only where at the date of death of such person there is no person entitled to survivors’ benefit under subparagraph (a) above. Social Security 79