Sentence examples for bereavement benefit from inspiring English sources
He adds that the system also doesn't reflect today's society, with unmarried parents not entitled to any bereavement benefit.
"It can be due to redundancy or bereavement, benefit sanctions, or spiralling debt problems compounded by receiving a huge bill out of the blue".
By 2015/16 the Treasury predicts a £2.55 cut in JSA, a £2.60 cut in carers allowance and a £6.40 cut in bereavement benefit.
At the heart of the family conflict is money that the Hurleys have received as a bereavement benefit from the Army: just three months earlier, their only son was killed in the Korean War.
As befits a plot that turns on the use of a Korean War bereavement benefit — should it pay for a fancy wedding or a long-dreamed-of business investment?
It's why I wonder how online dating sites just for widows and widowers work – over dinner do you talk about funerals, memorials and bereavement benefits?
A DWP spokesperson says: "Bereavement benefits are an important part of our welfare protection providing support for families through this very difficult time.
A spokesperson for the Department of Work and Pensions said that, overall, grieving families would receive more support after their welfare reforms, with an extra £110m spent on bereavement benefits.
After his death Shackell tried to claim widow's benefits, a set of benefits similar to bereavement benefits but which could only be claimed by women whose husbands had died and not by surviving spouses.
One complained about the fact that he could not claim the inheritance tax relief that a surviving spouse (and now civil partner) would be entitled to, the other (again represented by Liberty) that he was not entitled to bereavement benefits.
