7. Help if your husband, wife or civil partner dies

If your husband, wife or civil partner dies, you may be entitled to:

• Bereavement Payment (a one-off, tax-free, lump-sum payment of £2,000);

• Widowed Parent’s Allowance (if you have dependent children);

• Bereavement Allowance (if you have no dependent children);

• some inherited State Earnings-Related or Additional Pension; and

• Funeral Payments.

You cannot get bereavement benefits if you:

• are divorced;

• remarry or live with someone as a couple without being legally married or in a civil partnership; or

• are in prison or being held in legal custody.