Funeral Payments

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claims for Funeral Expenses Payments there have been in each of the last 10 weeks.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th June 2020

The number of Funeral Expenses payment claims in England and Wales is provided in the table below.

Number of Funeral Expenses Payments claims received, w/c 23/03/20 to w/c 25/05/20

Week Commencing

Number of Claims

23/03/2020

310

30/03/2020

410

06/04/2020

350

13/04/2020

440

20/04/2020

800

27/04/2020

940

04/05/2020

1,480

11/05/2020

1,470

18/05/2020

1,290

25/05/2020

1,040

Notes:

  1. The number of claims have been rounded to the nearest 10.
  2. The information provided is Management Information. It is not quality assured to the same extent as Official / National statistics.
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