I was very proud to speak on yesterday’s conference motion, Reversing Cuts to Bereavement Support Payments and Supporting Kinship Carers. It was a very powerful debate.
After losing my husband to oesophageal cancer when our daughters were just one and three, I am one of the countless people in the U.K. for whom bereavement payments were a life saver: allowing me to choose to work part time, not full time and so give two young children the stability and care they needed at a time when their world had been rocked.
I am determined to fight for this important benefit to be restored to those who are bereaved now and in the future, so that no-one has to struggle with unmanageable financial pressures on top of coping with the devastating grief of losing a loved one.
The motion also spoke passionately for the need to give kinship carers financial help so that families aren’t put under pressure when caring for a child.
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