Who receives workers compensation payments when an employee dies?

• When an employee dies his or her dependents will be entitled to a lump sum payment.
• Dependents generally mean any person that was wholly or partially dependent on the employee to provide for them financially and includes:
  • parents;
  • children;
  • siblings; and
  • partners including de facto and same-sex partners.
• In addition to lump sum payments some state and territories allow for the children of the deceased to receive weekly payments until they turn 16 or 25 if they go on to fulltime study.
• Some state and territories allow for other dependents such as partners to receive weekly payments although these are usually limited to periods ranging from 13 weeks to 3 years.