Widowed Parent's Allowance

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If your circumstances change

You must tell Dover Benefit Centre if you:

  • stop being entitled to Child Benefit
  • remarry or form a civil partnership
  • start to live with a partner as husband or wife, or as if you had formed a civil partnership

Dover Benefit Centre
Telephone: 0800 151 2012
Relay UK (if you cannot hear or speak on the phone): 18001 then 0800 151 2012
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Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm
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Dover Benefit Centre
Post Handling Site B
Wolverhampton
WV99 1LA

If you live in Northern Ireland, tell the Bereavement Benefits section instead.

If you’ve been paid too much

You may have to repay the money if you:

  • did not report a change straight away
  • gave wrong information
  • were overpaid by mistake

Find out how to repay the money you owe from benefit overpayment.