Claiming part of my late husbands state pension

65sucks I looked into it as my husband died in 2004 aged 47 . I will get full state pension for me end of April and 48p per week from my husband's contributions.

Get in touch with Citizens advice you may not get any of your husband's state pension but may be able to get pension credit. The advisor I was with for 3 hours helped me talk to DWP and they filled in a form and I need to phone DWP on my birthday and the advisor wrote down what I need to say. And told me if I don't get pension credit then to get another appointment with them and they will help me.

Hope this has been of some help.

If you were born after 5 April 1953 and come within the new state pension rules, you can claim 50% of any graduated pension or Additional State Pension he would have been entitled to. Bear in mind that if he was contracted out of then there will be no additional pension.

There is no longer any entitlement to inherit any part of his main pension as there was for women who were born before 6 April 1953.

www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/inheriting-or-increasing-state-pension-from-a-spouse-or-civil-partner

You should be invited to claim for your own pension four months before your own state pension age. Let the DWP know then that you are claiming any additional pension based on his contributions.