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Death and benefits

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• Benefits calculators
• Bereavement Allowance (previously Widow's Pension)
• Bereavement Payment
• 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)
• War Widow(er) Pension
• What to do when someone dies: step by step
• Widowed Parent's Allowance
• Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a spouse

Benefits

• How benefits work

  Benefit calculators, how payments work, changes of circumstance, benefit fraud and appeals

• Universal Credit

  Applying, signing into your account, and help with housing, disability, health conditions and unemployment

• Tax credits

  Getting Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, managing your tax credits and when tax credits stop

• Jobseeker's Allowance and low income benefits

  Getting JSA, Income Support, Budgeting Loans and other help if you’re on a low income

• Carers and disability benefits

  Help for disabilities including Personal Independence Payment, Carer's Allowance, and Employment and Support Allowance

• Child Benefit

  Getting and managing your Child Benefit

• Benefits for families

  Getting maternity pay, help with childcare and free school meals

• Heating and housing benefits

  Getting Housing Benefit, Winter Fuel Payment, Cold Weather Payment and other help for housing costs

• Death and benefits

  Getting Widowed Parent's Allowance, Bereavement Payment and other help when someone dies

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