The six weeks after-death payment arrangements are designed to provide transitional financial support immediately following the death of a pensioner. There are a number of anomalies within the scheme which section 7 aims to address. From June, where a person in receipt of disability benefit, unemployment benefit, invalidity pension, unemployment assistance, unemployability supplement, supplementary welfare allowance, pre-retirement allowance, disability allowance or farm assist dies and his or her spouse is in receipt of certain benefits in his or her own right, the payment of the deceased person's benefit shall continue to be made for a period of six weeks after death. Section 8 provides for a number of changes in the means test for social assistance schemes.