Funeral Payments
(asked on 30th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of funeral expenses payments claims made in 2019-20 were cleared in (a) 15 working days, (b) 15 working days plus 2 days and (c) 15 working days plus 5 days.
This question was answered on 9th November 2020
The information requested, in Great Britain, is reported annually in Appendix 1 of the Social Fund Annual Report, up to 2017/18:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2017-to-2018
The information requested for 2019/20 will be published in due course, and so cannot be released ahead of publication.