Funeral Payments
(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to process an application for funeral expenses from the Social Fund from the time an application is submitted to a decision being taken.
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014
The clearance time for Funeral Payments, as published in the 2012/13 Social Fund Annual report, is an average of 14.76 days, against a target of 16 days