The widower´s pension in the pension insurance of Slovak Republic
Keywords:
pension insurance, pension, survivor’s pension, widower´'s pension, social insurance, overlapping of pensionsAbstract
The paper deals with the legal regulation of the widower´s pension as the benefit of the pension insurance system in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. The paper analyzes the legal conditions for entitlement to a widower´s pension and the legal conditions for payment of a widower´s pension. Author pays attention to the issue of loss of the entitlement to a widower´s pension and to the issue of loss of the entitlement to a benefit payment. The paper also deals with determining the amount of the widower´s pension and with concurrence of claims payment of benefits: widower´s pension and the other benefits of pension insurance. The paper analyzes the conditions for entitlement 122 to a widower´s pension and the conditions for payment according to the current legislation of § 74 and § 75 of Act no. 461/2003 Coll. on social insurance, that is, in cases where the widower´s wife died after 1 January 2004.