Payments available for widows and widowers including bereavement payment, widowed parent's allowance and bereavement allowance.

Information on the main types of bereavement benefit which are payable on the death of a husband, wife or civil partner.

This information links you to benefits that you may be entitled to if you hav recently bereaved. There may be benefits, grants or other financial support available to you. In most cases, the help from bereavement benefits assumes you lost your partner within the last 12 months. 

If your husband, wife or civil partner has died you may be able to claim Bereavement Support Payment. The benefits can help ease some of the financial worries you may face following the death of your partner. They are not means-tested and can be paid whether or not you are working.

Explains types of bereavement benefits that can be paid to someone whose husband, wife or civil partner has died. 

If you're on a low income and need help to pay for a funeral you're arranging, you may be able to get a Funeral Payment from the Social Fund. You might have to repay some or all of it from the estate.

Includes information on who should pay for a funeral, and outlines options for how to play for a funeral, from where to find financial help to claiming funeral costs from the estate.