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Widow´s pensionELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR the entitlement to a WIDOW’S PENSION FROM THE PENSION INSURANCE SYSTEM OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Eligibility criteria for a widow’s pensionAn insured person is entitled to a widow’s pension if she is a widow surviving her husband who
A divorced wife is not entitled to a widow’s pension.
Entitlement to a widow’s pension occurs on the day of the husband’s death, which is the day of his death stated in the death certificate or which is the day given as the day of death (or the day on which a missing person did not survive) in a lawful court ruling on a husband who is reported as dead.
Effective as of January 1, 2016, entitled to the widow´s pension are also some widows whose entitlement to the widow´s pension ceased according to the legislation effective before January 1, 2004, on condition they fulfil the following criteria:
Entitled to the widow´s pension according to the legislation effective as of January 1, 2016 is not a divorced woman or a companion whose entitlement to the widow´s pension and its disbursement ceased in the past. Entitlement to the payment of a widow’s pensionEntitlement to the payment of a widow’s pension shall last for a period of one year after the husband’s death. After the expiration of such one-year period, the entitlement to the payment shall only last if the widow meets at least one of the following conditions:
The upbringing of a child for these purposes is considered as the upbringing of a child from his/her birth until he or she is no longer a minor (i.e., until reaching the age of 18 or until the day on which such child marries, if this is sooner). If a widow’s entitlement to the payment of a widow’s pension ceases because she no longer meets the criterion for the care of a dependent child or she ceases to be disabled due to a decreased ability to perform a gainful activity by more than 70 % and if subsequently, after some time she meets at least one of these criteria, she will again be entitled to the payment of the widow’s pension.
Effective as of January 1, 2016, entitled to the widow´s pension are also some widows whose entitlement to the widow´s pension ceased according to the legislation effective before January 1, 2004, on condition they fulfil the following criteria:
Entitled to the widow´s pension is not a divorced woman or a companion whose entitlement to the widow´s pension and its disbursement ceased in the past. Limitation of action for the widow’s pensionEntitlement to the payment of a widow’s pension or its part falls under the statute of limitations after the expiration of a three-year period from the day on which the widow began receiving the widow’s pension or its part. The given period does not begin to run during the widow’s pension proceeding or during the period in which the participant of this proceeding is dependant on a guardian but this guardian has not yet been appointed.
Termination of the entitlement to the widow’s pension and its paymentEntitlement to the payment of the widow’s pension ceases if after the expiration of one year from her husband’s death, the widow does not meet at least one of the following criteria:
If a widow’s entitlement to the payment of a widow’s pension ceases because she no longer meets the criterion for the care of a dependent child or she ceases to be disabled due to a decreased ability to perform a gainful activity by more than 70 % and if subsequently, after some time she meets at least one of these criteria, she will again be entitled to the payment of the widow’s pension.
Entitlement to the widow’s pension ceases
The entitlement of a natural person who fulfilled the eligibility criteria for entitlement to a widow’s pension and the eligibility criteria for the payment of a widow’s pension ends on the day of her death, unless Act No. 461/2003 Coll. on Social Insurance as amended by later regulations states otherwise.
Claiming a widow’s pensionA proceeding on the claiming of a widow’s pension from the pension insurance system of the Slovak Republic begins on the basis of a written claim of a natural person (the claimant) who is claiming the pension and its payment. If the claimant’s residence is on the territory of a different state, to which the coordination regulations of the European Union pertain, or on the territory of a contractual state, the request for a widow’s pension from the pension insurance system of the Slovak Republic is in principle submitted through the institutions of the social insurance system of that state; this also applies to the situation if the claimant does not claim a pension from the pension insurance system of the state, on the territory of which he/she has his/her residence. If the claimant’s residence is on the territory of a state, to which the coordination regulations of the European Union do not pertain, or which is not a contractual state, the request for a widow’s pension from the pension insurance system of the Slovak Republic is claimed at the Headquarters of the Social Insurance Company in Bratislava; or the claimant can file for it by completing the form “Request for Pension Filled Abroad” (see the Forms on Slovak page: http://www.socpoist.sk/formulare-ohc/48016s). ![]() ![]() Transfer of a widow’s pensionPensions are paid in advance to a state, to which the coordination regulations of the European Union pertain, in regular monthly periods and always on the regularly repeated periodicity pay dates. In the case of a state, to which the coordination regulations of the European Union do not pertain, pensions are paid in regular three-month intervals always postponed after the submission of the “Life certificate of the pension beneficiary”.
The periodicity pay date is determined for each person who is granted a pension benefit by the Social Insurance Company Headquarters.
A widow’s pension may be transferred
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