A State Pension claim from the DWP does not end automatically when a loved one dies.
State Pension currently provides a regular income for 12.6million older people across Great Britain, including more than one million living in Scotland. The payment is delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions to those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age - now 66 for both men and women - and have paid at least 10 years' worth of National Insurance contributions.
Once someone reaches State Pension age they can defer payments if they choose to carry on working. Doing this will actually increase payments when they eventually decide to claim by around £600 each year. You may be entitled to extra payments from your deceased spouse's or civil partner's State Pension, however, this depends on their National Insurance Contributions, and the date they reached the State Pension age.Top Money Stories Today Inheritance: Basic State Pension Should a spouse or civil partner have reached State Pension age before April 6, 2016, then GOV.UK instructs people to contact the Pension Service once someone dies in order to check what they can claim.
For people who are single or divorced, or who have had their civil partnership dissolved, it may be that their estate can claim some of a basic State Pension. State Pension top-up Should anyone have topped up their State Pension, the spouse or civil partner may be able to inherit some or all of the top up, gov.uk states.
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