Canada Disability Benefit Regulations

Marginal note:Payment to estate or succession

• 13 (1) If a beneficiary dies, the beneficiary’s estate or succession or the beneficiary’s heirs are eligible to receive a benefit payment for the month in which the beneficiary died if the beneficiary did not receive a benefit payment for that month.

• Marginal note:Amount payable to deceased beneficiary

  (2) Any amount owing as a benefit on the death of the beneficiary, or any benefit paid to the beneficiary or on their behalf in accordance with the Act and these Regulations but returned to the Minister after the death of a beneficiary, must be paid to the beneficiary’s estate or succession or the beneficiary’s heirs. If there are no heirs, this amount must be paid to a person or agency designated by the Minister.