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The applicant in application no. 63470/00 makes the same complaint in respect of lack of provision of both widowers' benefits and bereavement tax allowance.

60525/00, 61038/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63470/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain about non-payment of widow's payment and widowed mother's allowance from the date of bereavement.

In respect of the applicant in application no. 63470/00, the Government submitted, and the applicant conceded, that the tax allowance had been abolished by the time he made his claim to the Inland Revenue and he could not therefore claim to be a victim for the purposes of the Convention.

60525/00, 60933/00, 60937/00, 61038/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63470/00, 63473/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain that similarly situated women would at some point in the future become entitled to a widow's pension.

Declares inadmissible the complaint of the applicant in application no. 63470/00 about non-payment of Bereavement Tax Allowance;.

63470/00.

Auszug aus EGMR, 26.08.2003 - 60525/00

60525/00, 60933/00, 60937/00, 61038/00, 61949/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63473/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain that the lack of provision for widowers' benefits under British social security legislation discriminates against them on grounds of sex, in breach of Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with both Article 8 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1. The applicants in applications nos.

60933/00 and 63473/00}}.

The applicant in application no. 60933/00 observed that although his formal application for benefits was made more than three months after his wife's death, the benefits agency in fact treated his application as having been made within the prescribed time period.

60525/00, 60933/00, 60937/00, 61038/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63470/00, 63473/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain that similarly situated women would at some point in the future become entitled to a widow's pension.

60933/00.

Auszug aus EGMR, 26.08.2003 - 60525/00

60525/00, 60933/00, 60937/00, 61038/00, 61949/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63473/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain that the lack of provision for widowers' benefits under British social security legislation discriminates against them on grounds of sex, in breach of Article 14 of the Convention taken in conjunction with both Article 8 of the Convention and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1. The applicants in applications nos.

60525/00, 61038/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63470/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain about non-payment of widow's payment and widowed mother's allowance from the date of bereavement.

60525/00, 60933/00, 60937/00, 61038/00, 63464/00, 63469/00, 63470/00, 63473/00, 63474/00, 63645/00 and 63702/00 complain that similarly situated women would at some point in the future become entitled to a widow's pension.

61038/00.

Auszug aus EGMR, 26.08.2003 - 60525/00

Following the Court's judgment in Willis v. the United Kingdom (no. 36042/97, ECHR 2002-IV), they observe that even if the applicants were women and the discrimination of which they complain was thus removed, they would not qualify for a widow's pension under the conditions set out in the 1992 Act for some years hence and might never qualify due to the effect of other statutory conditions.