Funeral Payments
(asked on 22nd May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many funeral expenses payment awards were made in 2018-19; and (ii) what the value of those payments was.
This question was answered on 5th June 2019
The number and gross expenditure of Funeral Expenses Payment awards, in Great Britain, is reported annually in Appendix 1 of the Social Fund Annual Report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2017-to-2018
The information requested for 2018/19 will be published in due course, and so cannot be released ahead of publication.