8.3.2.1 Amounts Payable

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

. If an employee is not survived by a spouse, or if the spouse dies, a surviving child is eligible to receive a monthly death benefit equal to 25% of the deceased employee’s average monthly wage. effective September 19, 2007, a single surviving child is entitled to 66-2/3% of the decedent’s average monthly wage. Multiple surviving children must equally divide the 66-2/3%.^[39] The benefit continues until the child’s death, marriage, or attainment of majority.^[40] Effective March 1, 1999, a surviving child’s entitlement to benefits continues after age 18 until age 22, if the child is enrolled as a full-time student in any “accredited educational institution.”^[41] If the child is “incapable of self-support” when he or she reaches 18 years of age, however, the benefit will continue until the child “becomes capable of self-support.”^[42]

If more than one child survives the deceased employee, then the overall monthly death benefit payable to the children is increased by an amount equal to 15% of the employee’s average monthly wage for each child,^[43] not to exceed an amount equal to 66-2/3%...