Funeral Payments
(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for Funeral Expenses Payment were (a) made and (b) successful in each month since February 2021.
The number of Funeral Expenses Payment (FEP) applications received and awards made, since February 2021 up until January 2022, is provided in the table below, for England and Wales.
Month | Applications received | Awards |
February 2021 | 4,853 | 2,449* |
March 2021 | 4,763 | 3,790 |
April 2021 | 3,392 | 2,976 |
May 2021 | 2,834 | 1,957 |
June 2021 | 3,368 | 1,912 |
July 2021 | 2,873 | 2,055 |
August 2021 | 3,178 | 1,854 |
September 2021 | 3,454 | 2,515 |
October 2021 | 3,124 | 2,114 |
November 2021 | 3,309 | 2,184 |
December 2021 | 2,749 | 1,801 |
January 2022 | 3,098 | 1,719 |
FEP data sourced from the DWP Policy, Budget and Management Information System (PBMIS). *The FEP award figure for February 2021 is an estimate using unaudited internal DWP figures on the number of FEP loans, as this could not be sourced from the PBMIS data for February 2021. |