The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is reminding bereaved parents to check whether they could be eligible for backdated payments
The Department for Work and Pensions is reminding bereaved parents to check whether they could be eligible for backdated payments. In February the UK Government changed the law and extended eligibility for bereavement support payment and widowed parent’s allowance to cohabiting parents with dependent children - benefits which are designed to help with the financial impact of losing a partner.
When the DWP extended eligibility in February, it opened a 12-month window for cohabiting parents to backdate their claims, this means parents whose partner died before February 9, 2023 have until February 8, 2024 to claim. DWP Minister Viscount Younger of Leckie said: “This is an important law change which extends support to many more bereaved families with children, regardless of whether parents were married or in a civil partnership.
To qualify for these bereavement benefits, parents must be under the State Pension age, have paid a certain amount of National Insurance Contributions and be either pregnant or having a dependent child on the day their partner died.
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