Bereavement Support Payment
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Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bereavement Support Payment canonical | 2 |
| Bereavement Allowance | 1 |
| Bereavement Payment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1050391 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bereavement Support Payment Context triple: [National Insurance contributions, linkedTo, Bereavement Support Payment]
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A.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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B.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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C.
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support and work-related assistance to people whose ability to work is limited by illness or disability.
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D.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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E.
Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to help cover the extra costs of living with their impairments.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bereavement Support Payment Target entity description: Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
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A.
Carer’s Allowance
Carer’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who spend a substantial amount of time caring for someone with significant disability or health needs.
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B.
Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseeker’s Allowance is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to people who are unemployed and actively looking for work.
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C.
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance is a UK social security benefit that provides financial support and work-related assistance to people whose ability to work is limited by illness or disability.
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D.
Pension Credit
Pension Credit is a UK means-tested benefit that tops up the income of low-income pensioners to help ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement.
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E.
Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment is a UK welfare benefit that provides financial support to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions to help cover the extra costs of living with their impairments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
UK social security benefit
ⓘ
bereavement benefit ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Department for Work and Pensions ⓘ |
| administeredThrough | DWP bereavement service ⓘ |
| affectedBy | time limit for making a claim ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
surviving civil partners
ⓘ
widowers ⓘ widows ⓘ |
| benefitType | non-means-tested benefit ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| eligibilityCriterion |
claim must usually be made within a specified period after the death
ⓘ
claimant must be resident in the United Kingdom or meet specific residence conditions ⓘ claimant must be under State Pension age at time of spouse or civil partner’s death ⓘ deceased must have been spouse or civil partner of claimant ⓘ deceased must have paid sufficient National Insurance contributions or died due to an industrial accident or disease ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
initial lump sum payment
ⓘ
ongoing monthly payments ⓘ |
| introducedBy | UK government ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England
ⓘ
Northern Ireland ⓘ Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 ⓘ |
| mayAffect | entitlement to certain means-tested benefits ⓘ |
| notAffectedBy |
most other income
ⓘ
savings ⓘ |
| paymentMethod | bank account transfer ⓘ |
| paymentStructure | lump sum plus monthly payments ⓘ |
| policyArea |
bereavement support
ⓘ
social security ⓘ |
| purpose | provide financial support after death of spouse or civil partner ⓘ |
| rateDependsOn |
date of death of spouse or civil partner
ⓘ
whether claimant is entitled to Child Benefit for a child of the deceased ⓘ |
| reformObjective |
focus support on period immediately following bereavement
ⓘ
simplify previous bereavement benefits system ⓘ |
| replaced |
Bereavement Allowance
ⓘ
linked to:
Bereavement Support Payment
Bereavement Payment ⓘ
linked to:
Bereavement Support Payment
Widowed Parent’s Allowance ⓘ |
| requires |
National Insurance numbers of claimant and deceased
ⓘ
death certificate or acceptable proof of death ⓘ |
| startDate | 2017-04-06 ⓘ |
| targetGroup |
low-to-middle income households affected by bereavement
ⓘ
recently bereaved people ⓘ |
| taxStatus | tax-free ⓘ |
| website | https://www.gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Bereavement Support Payment Description of subject: Bereavement Support Payment is a UK government benefit that provides financial support to eligible people whose spouse or civil partner has died.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bereavement Support Payment
linked to: Bereavement Support Payment