Browsing: financial dependency

A widow who registered her marriage after her husband’s death lost a R4.5 million benefit claim to his cohabiting girlfriend, who proved financial dependency.

The Pension Funds Adjudicator found that a fund failed to properly investigate the financial dependency of a life partner and her children before allocating a death benefit, ordering the fund to reassess and redistribute the payout fairly.

A grieving widow has successfully challenged a death benefit payout that gave an equal share to an alleged life partner unknown to the family.