PFA dismisses woman’s R21m death benefit claim

The Pension Funds Adjudicator Mu- vhango Lukhaimane has dismissed a claim of a death benefit worth R21 million due to her signing a cohabitation agreement which shows that the parties agreed that there would be no sharing of pension benefits.

This comes after a woman who spent 17 years as a businessman’s life partner failed in her bid to lay claim to a share in the death benefit amounting to R21.3 million.

According to the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator (OPFA), the woman complained to the Pension Funds Adjudicator that Old Mutual Superfund Provident Fund should not have paid the full death benefit only to the deceased’s two biological daughters.

“The complainant was aggrieved she had been excluded as a beneficiary of