{"id":68,"date":"2017-04-06T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:03:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:03:26","slug":"government-bereavement-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/government-bereavement-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Government  Bereavement Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;for deaths on or after 6 April 2017, bereavement payments are replaced by a new bereavement support  payment. This is worth \u00a33,500, plus \u00a3350 a month for 18 months, for claimants with dependent children (\u00a32,500 plus \u00a3100 a month for other claimants). To qualify, the surviving partner must be under the state pension age, and the deceased must have paid &#8216;sufficient&#8217; National Insurance contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bereavement support payment is not taxable and is disregarded in the calculation of other means tested benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;for deaths on or after 6 April 2017, bereavement payments are replaced by a new bereavement support payment. This is worth \u00a33,500, plus \u00a3350 a month for 18 months, for claimants with dependent children (\u00a32,500 plus \u00a3100 a month for other claimants). To qualify, the surviving partner must be under the state pension age, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/government-bereavement-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government  Bereavement Payments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}