Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unsuccessful applications for Bereavement Support Payments have been made since 2018.
The published Bereavement Support Payments claims received statistics are easily accessible on Stat-Xplore, which provides a breakdown of those claims allowed and disallowed monthly back to Apr 17.
The total number of Disallowed Bereavement Support Payment claims from January 2018 to March 2022 was 22,447. Data in Stat-Xplore is only available until March 2022.