Bereavement payments provide financial support after the death of a loved one. The annual adjustment coming in April 2025 coincides with the start of the new financial year, a time when many ...

(including more than 445,000 for widows). “Our priority is ensuring pensioners receive the dignity and security they deserve in retirement and that state pension underpayment rates remain as low ...

That rate increase is dictated by the ... Industrial Death Benefit (or an Industrial Death Benefit Pension) is money paid by the state to the widow, widower or dependents of someone who died ...