Bereavement Allowance (previously known as Widows Pension*) and Bereavement Payment

If your husband, wife or civil partner has died you may be able to claim for a Bereavement Payment and a Bereavement Allowance. For you to qualify for these benefits, your husband, wife or civil partner must normally have paid enough National Insurance Contributions on their death. The contributions you have paid do not count for these benefits.

Bereavement Payment is a tax-free lump sum of £2,000 to help you at the time your spouse or civil partner dies.

Bereavement Allowance is a regular weekly payment (£95.25 in 2009) which you may receive for up to a year if you were 45 or over but below State Pension age when your spouse or civil partner died. You have only three months after the death of your spouse or civil partner to submit this application.

You cannot get a Bereavement Payment or Bereavement Allowance if, at the time your spouse or civil partner died you were divorced from them, or your civil partnership had been legally ended, or you were living with someone else as if you were married or in a civil partnership with them, or while you were in prison or legal custody.

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*Widows Pension is payable to Widows whose late husband died before 9 April 2001.

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