Published: 22.01.2021.
Price
Free
Execution deadline in working days
8
Recipient
Individual person
Private law legal person
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Funeral allowance is paid to the person organising the funeral:
• in the case of death of an employee, self-employed person or a family member that was dependant on them;
• in the case of death of an unemployed person;
• in the case of death of a beneficiary of a pension or insurance indemnity;
• in the case of death of a beneficiary of the state social security benefit. If the deceased person corresponds to several conditions simultaneously, giving the undertaker the right to receive the benefit, only one Funeral allowance, largest in amount, is paid.

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1. Service requests

The benefit must be claimed within 6 months of the date of death of the deceased person. If this time limit is exceeded, no benefit shall be granted.

In order to claim the benefit, a certain form of application addressed to the SSIA must be completed.

May submit a submission:

  • Latvija.gov.lv on the portal
  • present a personal identification document (passport or ID card) when requesting a service;
  • electronically (the application must be signed with a secure electronic signature containing the time stamp);
  • by post;

An application may be submitted in person to any SSIA Customer Service Centre, State and local Government Unified Customer Service centres or Riga City Land Registry offices at the time of registration of the fact of death.

The submission shall indicate the preferred method of receiving the decision.

2. Receipt of services

If the official electronic address account (hereinafter the e-address) is activated, the decision will be sent by the SSIA to the e-address regardless of how the application is submitted.

If the e-address is not enabled and:

• completed for e-submission on portal Latvija.gov.lv, the decision will be available for viewing on portal Latvija.gov.lv in the “SSIA information and services” e-service under the “logged-in services” section;

• the application has been submitted to the SSIA in person, electronically (signed with a secure electronic signature) or sent by post - the decision may be received according to the type of receipt of the decision indicated in the application: on the portal, Latvija.gov.lv, face-to-face, or by post

At the choice of the recipient, the SSIA shall transfer the service to the account of the Latvian credit institution or postal payment system.

 

A funeral benefit may be received in the following cases:

In the event of the death of an insured person - The benefit is paid in the amount of two monthly average social insurance contribution wages of the deceased person, but not less than the national average monthly contribution wage:

  • If the person died on or after 1 January 2026 – not less than 1487,77 euro,
  • If the person died on or before 31 December 2025 – not less than 1366,58 euro.

In the event of the death of a family member who was dependent on the insured person - The benefit is granted in the amount of three times the State social security benefit in old age:

  • If the person died on or after 1 January 2026 – 561 euro (187 euro x 3),
  • If the person died on or before 31 December 2025 – 498 euro (166 euro x 3).

The benefit is granted if the deceased was the minor child of an employee or a self-employed person, or a child up to 24 years of age who was studying at a secondary or higher education institution.

A funeral benefit due to the death of the insured person or their child is also granted if the death of the employee, self-employed person, or child occurs within one month after the termination of employment (or self-employment) and the person, during the two months prior to the month in which employment or self-employment ended, had the status of an employee or had actually made mandatory contributions as a self-employed person.

In the event of the death of an unemployed person - the benefit is granted in the amount of three times the State social security benefit in old age:

  • If the person died on or after 1 January 2026 – 561 euro (187 euro x 3),
  • If the person died on or before 31 December 2025 – 498 euro (166 euro x 3).

The benefit is granted if the deceased was a recipient of the unemployment benefit, or, although not receiving the unemployment benefit, held the status of an unemployed person and had at least 12 months of unemployment insurance contributions within the 36 months prior to obtaining unemployed status.

In the event of the death of a pension or insurance compensation recipient - the benefit is granted in the amount of two months’ pension or compensation of the deceased.

In the event of the death of a pension recipient, the funeral benefit is paid in the amount of two months’ pension, including any supplement to the pension (if granted) for insurance periods accumulated before 31 December 1995.

In the event of the death of a recipient of the State social security benefit - the benefit is granted in the amount of two times the State social security benefit.

In the case of the death of a person with Group I or Group II disability, the funeral benefit is calculated as for a person who is not employed.

The translation has been prepared using a machine translation tool.

The funeral benefit is transferred to the beneficiary’s account with a credit institution or the Postal Settlement System account in the Republic of Latvia, as indicated in the application.

If the deceased simultaneously meets multiple eligibility criteria for receiving the funeral benefit (e.g. the deceased was both employed and receiving a pension), only one funeral benefit is paid — the higher of the possible amounts.

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