In the case of a female employee, which of the following is included in her family under Section 2(33)…

Section 2(33) of the Code on Social Security, 2020 (formerly s.2(h)(ii) of the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972) lists as family a spouse; a minor legitimate or adopted child dependent upon the employee; certain other wholly dependent children (such as a child receiving education up to twenty-one years, an unmarried daughter or an infirm child); dependent parents (including the father-in-law and mother-in-law of a woman employee) whose income does not exceed the prescribed limit; and, where the employee is unmarried and his parents are not alive, a minor brother or sister wholly dependent on him. A woman employee's dependent parents-in-law are therefore included, while married children as such, parents who are not dependent, and brothers and sisters (except in the limited case stated) are not.