Probate

[Princess Sue]

My husband has just died. Does the �2000 bereavement payment and the �1500 back payment due from incapacity - both paid to me since his death, form part of his estate - do they have to go to probate ( does the executor have to be told?) - or are they totally separate payments?

[dzug]

The bereavement payment is a benefit payable to you, the widow, in your own right. It does not form part of you husband's estate.

If the incapacity benefit was due to be paid to your husband, but was paid late for whatever reason, then it does form part of his estate and the executor should be told about it.

[Princess Sue]

dzug - Thanks - better own up to the incapacity money!