what benefits will my Mum be entitled to after stepdad dies?

Lindz_Delirium

thanks for all the info everyone, it's such a hard time anyway without all this as well. I think they are going to get married, looks like this will put Mum in a better position?

AsknAnswer

From a legal point of view, she will have more automatic entitlements as a wife than as a partner. However she will also have more liability placed on her as a wife than as a partner. Your mum needs to consider the whole picture, not just the bits that will place her in a better position. There is a lot to consider, which no one person can advise you fully on. I can provide you with some links but they don't cover all the inns and outs:

http://www.oneplusone.org.uk/marriedornot/

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/f_living_together.pdf

http://www.advicenow.org.uk/living-together/livingtogether-in-a-nutshell,10010,FP.html

http://www.advicenow.org.uk/living-together/

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/family_parent/family/cohabitation_and_marriage_legal_differences.htm

http://www.stressfreehome.co.uk/cohabiting-live-together-get-married.html

Hope this gives a bit more insight. She needs to make the comparison between the pros and cons of cohabitation and the pros and cons of marriage before she jumps into something that she may regret.

Oldernotwiser

mealone wrote: »

A plot I think ONW.

Thanks, I'd never heard the expression before.

Marriage or not, the simple answer to the ongoing benefit situation is that she'll be able to claim JSA, LHA and CTC.