On the other hand, extending benefits to widowers could cost several hundred million pounds a year.
Participants consisted of 4, 500 widowers, 55 years or older, tracked over the span of nine years.
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The budget proposal would require most heirs, other than widows or widowers, to empty retirement accounts within five years.
Widows and widowers also can play one benefit against the other, he says.
The alternative would be to introduce equal, but lesser, benefits for widows and widowers or even to scrap them altogether.
Second, thanks to increased longevity, bereaved spouses are outliving their partners for longer than the widows and widowers of yesteryear.
So this is no time to hand out more benefits, especially to those widowers who would not need the money.
Football widows and widowers can rejoice, unless of course your spouse, roommate or alternate personality had a thing for NASCAR college basketball.
So is the aging of the population, creating more single widows and widowers, an effect that will grow as the baby boom retires.
Just 19 percent of widows and widowers in that age group are sexually active compared with 59 percent of married women and men.
They include divorced people or widows, or widowers who may be able to claim a pension on their ex or late spouse's contributions.
In her 30-plus years as Dear Abby, Phillips answered inquiries from all types: teenage girls, teenage boys, young women, exasperated mothers-in-law, elderly widows and widowers.
As a result, less than 25% of widows and widowers of spouses who died prematurely (age 30 to 55) felt their spouse had adequate life insurance.
Ms Miller told MPs there were "fundamental policy" issues that needed to be considered with "financial implications", such as pension entitlements for heterosexual civil partners, widows and widowers.
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It involves a tax break for widows and widowers that was made permanent by the American Taxpayer Relief Tax Act of 2012 after a two-year introductory period.
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When the researchers studied the health of widowers they found that, compared to those who stayed married over a four-year period, they drank more and ate far fewer vegetables.
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