Funeral Payments: West Midlands

(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, what the average waiting time for applicants to the Funeral Expenses Payment is in the West Midlands since September 2021.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 28th February 2022

We cannot provide the average waiting time for applicants to the Funeral Expenses Payment on a regional level, as requested.

However, Average Actual Clearance Times (AACT), for Great Britain, is reported annually in Section 4 of the Social Fund Annual Report, up to 2020/21:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-fund-annual-report-2020-to-2021

For 2020/21, the AACT in Great Britain was 20.3 days.

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