Section 33: Accrual of pensions

33. Accrual of pensions (1) A surviving spouse’s pension and a children’s pension granted under section 27 shall accrue from the day following the day on which the deceased in respect of whose contributions the pensions are payable died. (2) (a) The pensions shall accrue daily but shall be paid at the end of a month. (b) The Chairperson may direct that any pension accruing to any person at the end of a month be paid before the last day of the month. (3) Upon the death of a person to whom a surviving spouse’s pension is payable under the Scheme or the Fund, his legal personal representative shall be paid one full month’s pension in respect of the month in which he dies together with a gratuity of an equivalent amount. [S. 33 amended by Act 28 of 1993.]