Survivor's pension

To provide financial stability, you will continue to receive your spouses disability pension for a full year following their death. Continuation of Disability Pension When a disability pensioner dies, you will continue to receive their pension for one full year. If they also received Prisoner of War Compensation, Exceptional Incapacity Allowance or Attendance Allowance you will also receive the full amounts for each of those benefits. In the following year, you will automatically receive the survivors pension. Survivors pension The amount you receive through a survivors pension depends on the assessed level of your spouses disability pension. If their pension was assessed at 48 percent or greater, you will receive a full survivors pension (see maximum rate in Table B of the disability pension rate table). If their pension was assessed between 5 and 47 percent, your survivors pension will be one-half the amount they were receiving.

If you are the survivor of a disability pensioner you may qualify to receive a survivors pension.

Survivor's pension is open Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm.

Call (866) 522-2122, email information@veterans.gc.ca, or use the website.

Phone

(866) 522-2122

Email

information@veterans.gc.ca

Website

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/family-caregiver/death-and-bereavement/survivors-pension