Yana Kondratyuk, lawyer LC Aleksey Pukha & Partners about how get help in case of death

"My husband's brother died at the age of 35 years. Funeral Service has issued a receipt and told to contact the company where my husband works. The company did not state, but large for our city, with the official employment, payment of taxes and social support, etc. But I was told that we did not get them. Tell me, on what we can still count? "- Irene.

Yana Kondratyuk, lawyer Aleksey Pukha & Partners: how to get help in case of death?

Unfortunately, you did not specify whether the employed brother of your husband. Therefore, we explain a few situations. For a start we can assume that the service, when to advise you to apply to the plant, where he worked for your husband, has taken into account the fact that it is insured (as LU "On compulsory state social insurance in connection with a temporary disability and costs caused by the burial "). In this connection, meaning the part 1 article 45 of the Act, which lists the cases of provision of funeral benefit to the insured person, who is the brother of your husband. But the article provides a comprehensive list of family members, the death benefits are issued. And if your husband's brother was not dependent on his brother for the reason that he became disabled during the life of 18 years, the company has denied you legally.

But in that case, if the husband's brother worked, you are entitled to funeral benefit. Amount of the allowance shall not be less than the subsistence minimum established by the Board and the Social Insurance Fund for temporary disability. If the deceased was unemployed - may also be two options. Suppose the deceased was registered at the employment center. In this case, for the funeral benefit must be made within 6 months. apply to the employment center at the place of registration of a relative. When handling refer to the order of Ministry of Labor and sotspolitiki Ukraine № 309 dated 20.11.2000. If your husband's brother was not registered at the employment center, according to the "Procedure for assistance at the funeral of some persons executor of will of the deceased or the person who has undertaken to bury the dead", approved by the Cabinet of Ministers № 99 dated 31.01.2007, the deceased funeral benefit provided at the last place of residence of the budget based on the application, on the same day within 6 months after the death of the person."