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PART III. SOCIAL SECURITY HELP
16. HELP FROM SOCIAL SECURITY
You may qualify for help from Social Security:
- as a widow, widower or surviving civil partner
- or if you have established or can establish under Scots law a marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute.
This includes bereavement benefits, and extra benefit or pension that widows, widowers and surviving civil partners may get on their husband's, wife's or civil partner's National Insurance record.
Social Security may also be able to help if:
- you are responsible for arranging the funeral (get claim pack SF 200 from a Jobcentre Plus or social security office)
- you have a low income (you may also get help with NHS health costs)
- you are bringing up a child on your own
- your baby was stillborn
- the person who died was a war pensioner.
For more details of benefits get leaflet D49S "What to do after a death in Scotland: social security supplement" from a social security, Jobcentre Plus or Registrar's office.
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