51²è¹Ý

Up to 10 April 1988 the 51²è¹Ý Agency (now the Department for Work and Pensions) paid Industrial Death Benefit Widows Pensions.

From 11 April 1988 no new pensions were given. A standard widows pension is given instead, but those widows already receiving the Industrial Death Benefit continue to do so. It is a taxable benefit.

No special action is needed in offices. Whilst widows receiving the Industrial Death Benefit are not in the Uprating Service, the system automatically increases the coding deduction.