The benefits are paid only to widows, not to widowers; claimants must have been married when their husbands died; and poor widows receive least, because the benefits, paid equally to rich and poor, are deducted from means-tested help.
Compared to widows, widowers seem to have a higher risk of morbidity and mortality [ 5, 15, 21- 27].
In the US, these have included excluding women from jury duty based on their supposed responsibilities in the home, giving survivor's benefits to widows but not to widowers, and creating single-sex schools.
Yes, they concede, it is unfair to widowers.
It could be embarrassing for the government to oppose a case that looks so reasonable.On the other hand, extending benefits to widowers could cost several hundred million pounds a year.
The median score does not differ much in women but it does in men, being higher in married men compared to widowers and women in general.
This right is available, up to a maximum, to a widower as well as to a widow in the United Kingdom.
A Parisian version last December "was too sociological and ideological" and open to widows and widowers, which he said would not have gone down as well in Italy.
Community knowledge and attitudes about HIV and AIDS have been shown to influence the partnering options available to widows and widowers.
And "How to Talk to a Widower," the subject of a four-way Hollywood bidding war, is currently at Paramount.
