CA tells widowers of ‘fresh benefits’
Citizens’ Advice is using a media relations campaign to alert men to a change in the law surrounding bereavement benefits.
It is targeting personal finance and legal journalists, national and regional newspapers and broadcasters.
Men who want to make a claim must explain why they did not do so at the time of their wife's death, before a 4 November deadline. Successful applicants will obtain the same benefits women received before 2001.
Citizens' Advice social policy officer Vicky Pearlman said: 'People should contact their local Jobcentre Plus office to seek advice if they think they might benefit from the new ruling.'
