Relatives of the deceased

A) If the originator was a member of the Armed Forces or law enforcement:

Widows’, orphans’ (for disabled children) and parents’ pensions amount to 200 per cent of the base rate that would have applied to the deceased, based on their pay grade and years of service recorded at the time of their death.

The orphans’ pension for non-disabled elderly people is 100 per cent of the base rate described in the previous section.

B) If the originator was not a member of the Armed Forces or law enforcement:

Since 1-1-1996, the General State Budget Acts have set the amount of these pensions at the same level as the minimum Social Security widows’ pension for recipients aged over 65, which for 2025 is €874.40 per month.

Since 1-1-2008, orphans’ pensions for orphans who are not disabled (which had not been adjusted since 1981) have been increased by the same percentage as all other state pensions. In 2025, the amount is set at €194.26 per month.

The surviving spouse and, failing that, the orphans under the age of 21 or those over that age who have been unable to work since before reaching the age of 23 or since the death of the originator, and the parents of the deceased originator, provided they meet the conditions laid down by the general legislation on civil service pensions applicable in each case.

Those who died, were declared dead, or went missing during the Civil War, or afterwards, provided that a personal and direct causal link can be established between the civil war and the death of the originator, as well as those whose death gave rise to a pension as a result of hostilities prior to 1936.