8.3.3.1 Amounts Payable

• Jurisdiction: Arizona

. If the deceased employee is not survived by a spouse or children, then his or her surviving parents become eligible. A parent “wholly dependent for support upon the deceased employee at the time of his death” is entitled to a monthly benefit equal to 25% of the deceased employee’s average monthly wage.^[51] If two “dependent parents” survive the employee, then the death benefit is increased by an amount equal to 15% of his or her average monthly wage.^[52] Surviving parents only “partly dependent” upon the employee share a death benefit equal to 15% of his or her average monthly wage, “divided between them share and share alike.”^[53]

The deceased employee’s brothers and sisters under the age of 18 become eligible to receive death compensation benefits when the employee is not...