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 lump sum);
• Widowed Parent’s Allowance (if you have dependent children);
• Bereavement Allowance (if you have no dependent children); and
• some inherited State Earnings-Related or Additional Pension.
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.
Help with funeral payments is available to people on means-tested benefits through the Social Fund (see chapter 1).