Funerals: Costs
(asked on 7th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are affected by funeral poverty.
This question was answered on 13th October 2016
The Department does not hold this information. In 2015/2016, the Department made 29,000 Funeral Expenses Payments to people on qualifying income-based benefits and tax credits to help them with the cost of arranging a funeral.