Burial support from the Department of Military Veterans

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Criteria to qualify for burial support

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(1) A military veteran qualifies for burial support at the expense of the State if he or she, at the time of his or her death:

(a) Is a military verteran who is registered on the National Military Veterans Database
(b) Must be a Military Veterans who was a recipient of the pension upon his/her death in terms of the Special Pensions Act 69 of 1996.
(c) Has a force number of prison number and confirmed by their association or other government documentation should benefit.
(d) Passed on in exile and the remains are repatriated.
(e) Is posthumously registered on the National Military Veterans Database.

(2) In case the military veteran dies without verification or completed database registration, the Database Policy will prevail.

(3) Confirmation by association should be acceptable, if the deceased is a former non-statutory force member.

Amount of burial support benefit

(1) The amount for burial support payable toa military veteran is subject to subregulation 4(2) below. This is subject to an increase each year in order to align with the CPI index.

(2) If any one or more amounts are payable for burial support to a military veteran in terms of any other legislation, the amount payable to that military veteran in terms of subregulation 4(1) may together with amount or amounts so payable under other legislation not the amount prescribed in the Burial Policy.

(3) The Minister may in consultation with the Minister of Finance, by notice in the Gazette annually increase the amount of the burial support benefit in subregulation 4(1) and 4(2).