Benefits and financial support when someone dies

Help with costs and funeral expenses after someone has died. Includes Universal Credit.

Find out what you could get

• Benefits calculators

Benefits and financial support

• Bereavement Support Payment
• Child Benefit if a child or parent dies
• Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
• Guardian's Allowance
• Support for child funeral costs (Children’s Funeral Fund for England)
• Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave
• Universal Credit
• Widowed Parent's Allowance
• War Widow(er) Pension

Other support

• What to do when someone dies: step by step
• Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a spouse
• Support visits if you need help to claim benefits