Death and assistance

Bereavement payment and funeral payment (Pogrebnina in posmrtnina)

This is a single payment. You are entitled to Bereavement payment when you’re a relative of the deceased family member and when you’re a holder of Financial social assistance or Income support or when your income does not exceed the legally set census.
You can claim Funeral payment to cover the funeral expenses. The funeral payment is paid out in the amount of two minimum wages. You can assert both rights in the period of one year after the death of the relative.

You can file the application for Bereavement payment and/or Funeral payment at any Centre for Social Work. Find the nearest here (in Slovenian): http://www.mddsz.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/sociala/izvajalci/csd/

Survivor’s pension (Družinska pokojnina)

Survivor’s pension is a monthly income you may be entitled to if you’re a surviving family member of a person, who was a payer of pension insurance. Survivor’s pension can claim: children, foster children, grandchildren and other parentless children for whom the deceased person provided for maintenance or parents for whom the deceased had provided for maintenance. However, additional criteria have to be met to be eligible (read more in the section “WORK”, Orphan/survivor’s pension)

You file an application for the widow(er) pension at the Pension and disability insurance institute (ZPIZ). https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?ids=zpizen

Entitlement to survivor’s pension (Pravica do družinske pokojnine)

Survivor’s pension is a regular monthly income granted to family members of deceased person, who was receiving a pension or a deceased person who was insured under disability and employment-related pension insurance and had reached certain pensionable service years. Certain other legally defined conditions must also be fulfilled. Survivor’s pension can claim: children, foster children, grandchildren and other parentless children for whom the deceased person provided for maintenance or parents for whom the deceased had provided for maintenance.
For more information on the survivor’s pension, refer to the website of the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia (Zavod za pokojninsko in invalidsko zavarovanje): https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?ids=content&inf=329 (in Slovenian) or to the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia directly.
(read more in the section “WORK”, Survivor’s pension)

You can file an application for the survivor’s pension at the Pension and disability insurance institute (ZPIZ). https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?ids=zpizen

Entitlement to widow or widower’s pension (Pravica do vdovske pokojnine)

Widow or widower’s pension (bereavement allowance) is a right you may be entitled after your spouse or partner has passed away if the deceased has reached 56 years and was insured under the disability and employment-related pension insurance or was receiving benefits from this insurance. Before being entitled to widow or widower’s pension, certain conditions by the widow or widower and by the deceased need to be fulfilled. Certain other conditions also apply.
More information on the right to the widow or widower’s pension is available at the website of the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia (Zavod za pokojninsko in invalidsko zavarovanje)
(in Slovenian):
https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?ids=content&inf=330
(in English): https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?id=11&inf=502

(read more in the section “WORK”, Widow or Widower pension)

You can file an application for the right to the widow or widower’s pension at the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of Slovenia (ZPIZ). https://www.zpiz.si/cms/?ids=zpizen