Section 2830.206  Order of Payment on Behalf of a Comatose Claimant

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

a)         The guardian of his or her estate, if one has been appointed;

b)         The living spouse;

c)         The living children in equal shares, if the claimant has no living spouse;

d)         The living parents in equal shares, if there is no living spouse or living child of the claimant;

e)         The living brothers or sisters of the claimant in equal shares, if there is no living spouse, child or parent of the claimant; or

f)          Other relatives, either by blood or marriage, who have paid the expenses connected with the claimant's care in his or her comatose state, in such shares as may be equitable, depending on the proportional contribution of the relative to the expenses, if there is no living spouse, child, parent, sister or brother of the claimant.

(Source:  Added at 32 Ill. Reg. 18972, effective December 1, 2008)