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Campaigning for change: Democracy in action
Apr 2025
WAY trustee Gary explains how emailing his MP has helped to open doors for WAY’s Stand Up for Bereaved Families campaign.
Feb 2025
Two bereaved parents are taking their fight for equal bereavement benefits for cohabiting couples all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. Here’s their story…
Bereavement Support Payments: A lifeline for Stacey on Valentine’s Day
Feb 2025
On the two year anniversary of bereavement benefits being extended to cohabiting parents, we talk to WAY member Stacey about the difference the payments have made…
When Bereavement Support Payments stop: Widowed mum left with £50 a month
Jan 2025
After her husband died, Sophie relied on Bereavement Support Payments to survive. Now payments have stopped, leaving the widowed mum struggling to make ends meet.
Standing up for bereaved families: Catherine’s story
Dec 2024
WAY member Catherine recently spoke to the co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer about the need to extend Bereavement Support Payments…
Oct 2024
Although Bereavement Support Payment has been extended to cohabiting couples with children, unmarried couples without children are still being denied support. WAY member Michelle shares their story…
Campaign to extend bereavement support payments: Sophie’s story
Jul 2024
When Sophie’s husband Paul died in 2023, she was 17 weeks pregnant. Her Bereavement Support Payments are due to stop just after her baby turns one. Here is Sophie’s story…
Urgent: Deadline for retrospective bereavement benefits
Jan 2024
Deadline for cohabiting parents to claim full retrospective bereavement benefits closing soon - find details...
Sept 2023
Find out more on the campaign pages of our website and help us to find the 21,000 people who may be eligible for retrospective payments.
Jun 2023
Joby writes how the recent change in the law to extend bereavement support to parents who weren’t married or in a civil partnership has impacted her…
Extending Bereavement Support Payments: Lauren’s story
Mar 2023
When Lauren’s husband Rob died last June, she started to receive the first of 18 monthly instalments of Bereavement Support Payment to help support herself and her daughter, Amelia. Although she was g…
Laura Banks’ story: challenging injustice all the way to the Supreme Court
Feb 2023
We asked Laura Banks from Siobhan McLaughlin’s legal team to share her perspective on taking Siobhan’s case all the way to the highest court in the land – and winning!
Siobhan's Story: Cohabiting Couples Campaign
Feb 2023
When Siobhan discovered through conversations with Citizen’s Advice that parents who were not married or in a civil partnership were unable to claim the support available at that time to married paren…
Kathy's Story: Cohabiting Couples Campaign
Feb 2023
WAY Ambassador Kathy Ford lost her partner Keith in November 2018 to a sudden heart attack. They had been together for 19 years and had two sons together. In June 2019, Kathy gave evidence to the Work…
Elanor shares her story to support our Cohabiting Couples Campaign
Feb 2023
Elanor’s partner Robin died in 2005 after a motorbike accident. She was pregnant with their only daughter Sophie when Robin died and has struggled for the past 17 years to bring up Sophie as a lone pa…
CAMPAIGN SUCCESS! Bereavement benefits extended to cohabiting parents
Feb 2023
We are delighted to announce that from Thursday 9 February, cohabiting parents will be able to claim the same bereavement benefits to help bring up their grieving children as if they had been married …
Celebrating campaign success: Georgia's Story
Feb 2023
Georgia Elms was widowed in 2006 when her husband Jon died suddenly from meningitis aged just 38 – the next day she discovered she was pregnant with the couple’s second child.
Diary of WPA application for an unmarried parent
Feb 2023
Elanor is sharing a diary as she goes through the application process for retrospective payments under the Widowed Parent's Allowance (WPA).
Celebrating campaign success: Pete's Story
Jan 2023
WAY member Pete Bailey has been campaigning to extend bereavement support to cohabiting couples since his partner died in 2010, when the couple’s youngest son was just six weeks old. Their boys are no…
Celebrating campaign success: Laura's Story
Jan 2023
York-based WAY member Laura has been campaigning to extend bereavement support to unmarried parents since her partner Nigel died of a heart attack in February 2020, leaving her to bring up their 2-yea…
At WAY we pride ourselves on providing support, free of judgement, to anyone who is facing widowhood at a young age. We are also committed to fighting injustices that young widowed people may face.