State Pension / Deceased

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8090105/Up-to-25m-in-Winter-Fuel-Payments-given-to-dead-pensioners-families.html

"However anyone who dies between the qualifying week and the date when their cheque is sent out is still considered entitled to receive the payment, with the DWP forwarding it to their next of kin."

GoingSolo

greenglide wrote: »

With a DoD of 7th November

DoD was 9th Nov;)

When we registered the death about a week later at the local office in hospital they sort out informing all Gov & local depts for you.

Any monies in here PO account would be her's so would expect those to passed onto her estate which I'm a executor for.

Still waiting on letter to say if monies in my account are those from her PO account. If no letter I can ask at the bank next time there.

pafpcg

My partner's mother also died in the first week of November albeit three years ago. We telephoned the DWP Bereavement Service a week after her death to cancel her StatePension and Attendance Allowance.

A letter addressed to her arrived in late November stating the immininent arrival of the Winter Fuel Payment but no money! Following a claim confirming that she was alive and living at her address during the qualifying week in September, the money finally arrived on 25-March! So you may have to be patient.....

The Bereavement Service did stop the payments of State Pension and Attendance Allowance (plus my partner's Carers Allowance after the standard seven(?) weeks grace period), but, because she was paid weekly and in advance, there was one week of overpayment which DWP requested be refunded in letters at the end of December which we repaid in early January; the refunds were acknowledged by letter a month later. My recollection is that DWP paid a whole week of pension even though she died two days into the pension's week.

Overall, DWP did everything we asked of them, just a little slowly.

GoingSolo

Letter from PO confirming same amount as paid into my bank arrived this morning.

Still rather she was around so we could have more time in the Yorkshire Dales having picnics and driving now that I'm in early retirement since June this year.

missbiggles1

greenglide wrote: »

So it was paid weekly at the Post Office (via a POCA account)?

Depending on the date of death and the payday of the pension there may be an entitlement to arrears. If you have informed DWP of the death (phone the Pension Service - they have a special option on the phone menu) they will determine if there are arrears due and send you a form to fill in.

If there is one or more payments at the Post Office presumably they will be claimed via the post office - much the same as a bank account.

When I phoned recently to inform them of my husband's death they did it all by phone.The amount owed was in my account within a fortnight and they adjusted my own pension in less than a month.

I was very impressed by the efficiency of the service.

GoingSolo

Forms in on Tuesday gone. Money in bank on Friday same week.

Spidernick

p00hsticks wrote: »

Sorry for your loss.

Finally! Surely that's the first thing people should be saying?

May I second the sentiment to the OP.