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  • Benefits calculators

    Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

  • Bereavement Support Payment

    Bereavement Support Payment is money you can get if your partner dies - how it works, eligibility, what you'll get, how to claim.

    • How it works

      You may be able to get Bereavement Support Payment if your partner has…

    • Eligibility

      Bereavement Support Payment is not means-tested. This means what you earn…

    • What you'll get

      The amount of Bereavement Support Payment you can get will depend on: your…

    • How to claim

      You can apply for Bereavement Support Payment online, by telephone or by…

  • Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)

    Funeral Expenses Payment (also called Funeral Payment) to help pay funeral costs if you get certain benefits - eligibility, how to claim, form SF200

    • How it works

      You could get a Funeral Expenses Payment (also called a Funeral Payment)…

    • Eligibility

      You can get a Funeral Expenses Payment if all of the following apply: you…

    • Make a claim

      You must apply within 6 months of the funeral, even if you’re waiting for…

  • Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a partner

    How the death of your partner affects your benefits, tax and pension. What you can claim and who to tell about your change of circumstances.

  • Widowed Parent's Allowance

    Widowed Parent's Allowance - what you'll get, eligibility, how to claim, bereavement benefits claim form BB2.

  • Give up probate executor rights: Form PA15

    Executors can use this form to give up their legal responsibility and role permanently (also known as ‘renunciation’) to apply for probate.

    • From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
  • Guardian's Allowance

    Guardian's Allowance help if you're looking after a child who is not your own - rates, eligibility, how to claim, appeal a decision.

  • Child Benefit if a child or parent dies

    Child Benefit if your child dies or the claimant dies - report the death, when to make a new claim, arrears

  • Widowed Parent's Allowance claim form

    Use this form to claim Widowed Parent's Allowance if your partner died before 6 April 2017.

    • From: Department for Work and Pensions
  • War Widow(er) Pension

    War Widow's or Widower's Pension if your wife, husband or civil partner died as a result of service in HM Armed Forces or during war - eligibility, how to claim, and how to claim funeral expenses

  • Give up probate administrator rights: Form PA16

    If you’re a spouse or civil partner you can use this form to give up your rights as an administrator if there is no will.

    • From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service