Family pension – orphan

What

The child of a deceased insured person or pension beneficiary will be entitled to survivors’ pension.

Who

A child acquires the right to a family pension:
• if he/she is younger than 15 at the time of a parent’s death, and can benefit from this right until he/she reaches 18, in those periods when he/she is not employed;
• if he/she has a complete loss of work capacity by the age by which children are guaranteed the right to a family pension, he/she keeps the right to a family pension for the duration of the full loss of work capacity;
• when the full loss of work capacity has set in after the age by which children are guaranteed the right to a family pension, and before the death of the insurance beneficiary or the beneficiary of the right, provided that the deceased supported it up to his/her death;
• if at the time of death of the insurance beneficiary the child is in regular education or enters such education following the death of the insurance beneficiary.
Children have this right up until their regular education is completed, but no longer than until they are 26 years of age. If the regular education has been discontinued due to illness, the child keeps the right to a family pension for the duration of the illness up until he/she is 26 years of age, as well as beyond that age but only by as long a period of time as he/she has lost in regular education due to the illness, if that education has been continued before the child has reached 26 years of age.

How

You have to submit an application for the recognition of your right to survivors’ pension; the documents listed in the application form have to be enclosed thereto.

When

After a parent’s death. Deadline is not indicated.

Good to know

Request for recognising the right to a family pension (in Croatian): https://goo.gl/Qn6mww

Pension Insurance Act (in Croatian): https://goo.gl/PEBEyx

Where

If the right to survivors’ pension is obtained after the death of an insured person, you may submit the application to the competent regional/local office of the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute based on the applicant’s address of permanent or temporary residence.

If the right to survivors’ pension is obtained after the death of a pension beneficiary, you may submit the application to the competent regional/local office of the Croatian Pension Insurance Institute that was paying the pension.

Zagreb, Croatia