Bereavement Support Deadline and Warm Home Discount

Money Box

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4.2 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Around twelve thousand unmarried parents with dependent children whose partner has died have just a few days to claim their share of an estimated £175 million in bereavement benefits. The figures came from Freedom of Information Requests to the Department for Work and Pensions. People must claim that money before Thursday 8th February. If you think you, or someone you know, may be eligible check by searching for "bereavement support payment" on the gov.uk website.

New figures show £253 billion is sitting in bank accounts which pay no interest at all. Should banks be telling us to move it?

The government is sending out the final cost of living payment for low income households this month. It's £299 straight into bank accounts. We've got all the details. And some people who got £150 off their electricity bill last year are discovering they are not entitled this year, because their home isn't hard enough to heat. We'll discuss changes to the Warm Home Discount Scheme.

Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporters: Dan Whitworth, Tamzin Kraftman, Eimear Devlin Researchers: Sandra Hardial and Jo Krasner Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 3rd February 2024)

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0:43.2	Hello, welcome to this Moneybox podcast.
0:46.1	A quarter of a trillion pounds is sitting in bank accounts which pay no interest at all.
0:51.3	Should banks be telling us to move it?
0:53.7	The government is sending out the final
0:55.5	cost of living payment for low-income households this month. It's £299 straight into your bank
1:01.9	account. And the rules to get £150 off your electricity bill have changed, so some people
1:08.0	who got the discount last winter are not getting it this winter.
1:11.6	But first, Moneybox has discovered that around 12,000 unmarried parents with dependent children
1:17.6	whose partner has died have just a few days to claim their share of an estimated 175 million pounds
1:25.6	in backdated bereavement benefits.
1:28.0	Those figures were revealed to us in freedom of information requests to the Department for Work and Pensions.
1:33.7	But parents must claim by this Thursday, the 8th of February, or the money will vanish back into the Treasury.
1:41.0	Dan Whitworth's here. Dan, exactly who does this affect?
1:43.8	Well, if a couple with children were married or in a civil partnership and one of them died,
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