Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were denied Bereavement Support Payments in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023 due to their deceased partner not having made the necessary national insurance contributions.

Table 1: Number of Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) claims disallowed due to the deceased partner having insufficient National Insurance Contributions during 2023 and 2024

Notes

- Figures for 2023 covers the period of January 2023 to December 2023

- Figures for 2024 only covers the period of January 2024 to March 2024

- The number of claims disallowed have been rounded to the nearest 10

Source: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/