Section 2830.205  Order Of Payment To Survivors Of A Deceased Claimant

Benefits which are payable, but as yet unpaid or not yet presented for payment, to a deceased individual shall be paid over to the persons claiming such benefits on behalf of the deceased claimant in the following order:

a)         The administrator or executor of the decedent's estate;

b)         The decedent's surviving spouse;

c)         The surviving children in equal shares, if the decedent has no surviving spouse;

d)         The surviving parents in equal shares, if no spouse or child survives the decedent;

e)         Such brothers or sisters who survive the decedent in equal shares, if no spouse, child or parent survives the decedent;

f)          Such other relatives, either by blood or marriage, who have paid the funeral expenses connected with the last illness of the decedent, in such shares as may be equitable, depending on the proportional contribution of said relative to said expenses, if no spouse, child, parent, sister or brother survives the decedent.