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Lords Chamber
Widowed Parent’s Allowance - Wed 05 Sep 2018
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stedman-Scott (CON - Life peer) Widowed parent’s allowance is paid to those families in receipt of child benefit, where one parent’s - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) They abolished widowed parent’s allowance and replaced it with bereavement support payment. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) which might kick in after the bereavement payment has been extinguished? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Security - Mon 05 Feb 2018
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Neil Gray (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) The decision not to uprate the bereavement support payment in line with inflation is completely unacceptable - Speech Link
2: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) the bereavement support grant. - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) A bereavement support payment is not a cost-of-living benefit and is paid in addition to means-tested - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pension Equality for Women - Thu 14 Dec 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) a husband, and were subsequently widowed. - Speech Link
2: Jo Churchill (CON - Bury St Edmunds) My husband and I still have four living parents, which is great. - Speech Link
3: Emma Hardy (LAB - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) I asked how I could help her, and she told me that she was on bereavement leave because her son had died - Speech Link
4: Thelma Walker (LAB - Colne Valley) She does not get a bus pass and she does not get a heating allowance. - Speech Link
5: Helen Goodman (LAB - Bishop Auckland) Jane and Pamela exemplify those people who are being moved on to employment and support allowance. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Housing and Social Security - Thu 22 Jun 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) Under this Government, my constituents have had to endure a reduction in employment support allowance - Speech Link
2: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) by a grieving grandmother whose son had just been widowed. - Speech Link
3: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) people get their first payment. - Speech Link
4: Debbie Abrahams (LAB - Oldham East and Saddleworth) a year for half a million sick and disabled people in the employment and support allowance work-related - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Bereavement Benefits - Thu 06 Apr 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) benefits for parents with dependent children. - Speech Link
2: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, bereavement support payment is a new benefit intended to help people with the immediate additional - Speech Link
3: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We have made changes to this because the old system of three benefits—bereavement payment, bereavement - Speech Link
4: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) make that very generous initial payment, to then provide some support for those with children for 18 - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for the Bereaved - Thu 02 Mar 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) to replace bereavement payment, bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance for those whose - Speech Link
2: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) bereavement benefits: the bereavement payment, bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance.Losing - Speech Link
3: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) Unlike bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance, bereavement support payment will be paid - Speech Link
4: Lord Harrington of Watford (CON - Life peer) parent’s allowance, claimants of the bereavement support payment will be entitled to receive all the - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017 - Mon 27 Feb 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) Bereavement support payment will replace bereavement allowance, widowed parent’s allowance and the bereavement - Speech Link
2: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) to replace bereavement payment, bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance for those whose - Speech Link
3: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) Some 75% of widowed parents will be worse off. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) Recipients of the bereavement support payment who also receive universal credit, jobseeker’s allowance - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017 - Tue 21 Feb 2017
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Bereavement support payment will replace bereavement allowance, widowed parent’s allowance and the bereavement - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) to widowed parents with dependent children. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) They introduce a new single payment to replace bereavement payment, bereavement allowance and widowed - Speech Link
4: Lord Henley (CON - Excepted Hereditary) She will also know that the basic component of bereavement allowance and widowed parent’s allowance have - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty - Thu 14 Jul 2016
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) However, I hope the Government will address a specific problem relating to the widowed parent’s allowance - Speech Link
2: Lord Suri (CON - Life peer) I support parents having the right to leave a family home to their children, but our absurdly tight planning - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) most important thing we did as a country to support parents and help them in nurturing and supporting - Speech Link
4: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) The widowed parent’s allowance provides support for normal living expenses, and it would not be appropriate - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Welfare Reform and Work Bill - Mon 29 Feb 2016
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Portsmouth (Bishops - Bishops) Widowed parents are not like other lone parents, and I hope that, as we look forward, there can be some - Speech Link
2: None be entitled to start claiming the work-related activity component of employment and support allowance - Speech Link
3: Lord Low of Dalston (CB - Life peer) be entitled to start claiming the work-related activity component of employment and support allowance - Speech Link
4: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (CB - Life peer) support allowance receive £30 a week more than those on jobseeker’s allowance. - Speech Link
5: Lord Freud (CON - Life peer) and guardian’s allowance. - Speech Link