When benefits due an individual have been unpaid at the time of death and the estate of such individual has not been administered upon in the probate court within sixty days after the time of death, the Commission may pay such benefit amounts as the deceased may have been entitled to:

1. (1) To the surviving wife or husband and, if there be none;
2. (2) To the minor children and, if there be none;
3. (3) To the adult children and, if there be none;
4. (4) To the parents of the deceased and, if there be none;

5. (5) To any person or persons who were dependent upon the deceased.

   And, if there be no person within the foregoing classifications the payments due the deceased shall lapse and revert into the unemployment trust fund.

   Payment to any responsible adult with whom minor children are making their home, upon a written pledge to use such payment for the benefit of such minors, will be considered proper and legal payment to such minor children without the requirement of formal appointment of a guardian.