Anw survivor benefit - When does the Anw benefit stop?

When you turn 65

Your survivor benefit will stop when you turn 65. You may then get an AOW pension.

If your civil status or domestic situation changes

Your survivor benefit will stop if your civil status or domestic situation changes because you:

• get married
• enter into a registered partnership
• start living with a partner

If you start living with a partner, your survivor benefit will not end definitively straight away. If you decide to start living on your own again within 6 months, you will start receiving your benefit again.

If your child turns 18 or starts living somewhere else

Your Anw survivor benefit will stop if:

• your youngest child turns 18 and you were born on or after 1 January 1950
• your child starts living with another family and you were born on or after 1 January 1950

You are no longer at least 45% incapacitated for work

Your Anw survivor benefit will end if you were born after 1 January 1950 and you are no longer at least 45% incapacitated for work.

If you are imprisoned or detained for more than a month

Your survivor benefit will stop if you are held in a prison or remand centre for longer than a month. 

If you have been released from detention or imprisonment, you can start receiving Anw benefit again as from the day of your release. In that case, you must send us a copy of your proof of release.

Different rules apply if you already had an AWW widow's pension before 1 July 1996

If your AWW widow's pension (under the National Widows’ and Orphans’ Act (AWW)) was converted into an Anw survivor benefit on 1 July 1996, other rules will apply. Please contact us if you require more information about this.