5. What happens to other benefits?
Overlapping benefits – Widowed parent’s allowance overlaps with contributory and ‘new style’ employment and support allowance, carer’s allowance, ‘new style’ jobseeker’s allowance, maternity allowance and unemployability supplement. You cannot receive two overlapping benefits at the same time; you will receive the higher of the overlapped benefits. Bereavement support payment is not affected by this rule.
When you reach pension age – Bereavement support payment and widowed parent’s allowance cannot be paid beyond pension age. See Chapter 46 for details of the state pension, including how it works for widows, widowers and surviving civil partners.
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