Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Commission is to grant a benefit ( funeral benefit ) to the estate of a deceased veteran if, immediately before the veteran died:
(a) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at the rate specified in subsection 22(4); or
(b) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II as a veteran to whom section 24 applied; or
(c) he or she was being paid a pension under Part II at a rate that had been increased under section 27 because the veteran was incapacitated from a war - caused injury or a war - caused disease of a kind described in any of items 1 to 8 of the Table in subsection 27(1); or
(d) the Commission was satisfied that the veteran had, before the MRCA commencement date, been made a prisoner of war at a time when the veteran was rendering operational service.
(2) The amount of the funeral benefit is $2,000.