Apply for Bereavement Benefits

You may be able to get a one-off payment or regular payments for 52 weeks if you have been bereaved.

How to use this service

Use the links below to download and complete a claim form or contact the SSA for a claim form.

Claim Online

You cannot claim Bereavement Benefit online.

Download a form

Bereavement Benefit forms:

• Bereavement Benefit form BB1 (PDF 83KB)
• Bereavement Benefit form Notes (PDF 1.5MB)
• Help with PDF files

You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

• post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
• hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.

Ask for a form

You can get Bereavement Benefit forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Pension Service (contacts section)
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

More useful links

Read more about

• Bereavement Allowance (money, tax and benefits section)
• Bereavement Payments (money, tax and benefits section)