The surviving spouse can receive no further benefits until becoming entitled to a surviving spouse's benefit at age 60 (or a disabled widow's or
widower's benefit at age 50).
David Fielding's successful claim for
widower's benefit will open the floodgates to hundreds of thousands of men nationwide who are suing for bereavement payments.
This also includes anybody who is receiving widow's benefit, widow's mother's allowance and
widower's benefit, if they live with a partner that benefit is not payable and they are cheating the public.
RE ALEC McFadden's fight for
widower's benefit and his vow to go to the European Court of Human Rights (Daily Post, January 19).
