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answer › question first answered	2018-01-08T12:43:57.847Z
tabling member › label	Biography information for Martyn Day
answer › answering member constituency	Gosport
max date	2019-06-17

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21/12/2017

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Bereavement Benefits: Cohabitation

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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to allow surviving members of cohabiting couples to access bereavement benefits.

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Linlithgow and East Falkirk

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Martyn Day

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120991

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is ministerial correction

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08/01/2018

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<p>Bereavement Benefits are contributory benefits and it is a founding principle of the contributory benefits system that rights derived from another person’s contributions should be based on the concept of legal marriage or civil partnership. Moreover, proving that cohabitation existed could be a complex process likely to cause distress at a time of bereavement.</p>

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Gosport

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Caroline Dinenage

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08/01/2018 12:43:57

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label	Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage

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label	Biography information for Martyn Day