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Bereavement Support Payment: Cohabitation

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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 98960, tabled on 5 October 2020

Question

Stella Creasy
Labour
Walthamstow
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps she has taken to implement the ruling of the Supreme Court of 30 August 2018, [2018] UKSC 48, on extending bereavement support payments to unmarried couples.

Answer

Mims Davies
Conservative
Mid Sussex
Commons

Answered on

8 October 2020

We intend to take forward a Remedial Order to extend eligibility for Widowed Parent’s Allowance and Bereavement Support Payment to cohabitees with children. We are working on the detail of, and implementation plans for, these changes. We intend to lay the Order before the House in due course.

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