| Heading: |
Funeral Payments |
| Question ID: |
1816000 |
| UIN: |
62413 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5249 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ellie Chowns
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| Asking Member handle: |
EllieChowns
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@EllieChowns
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how people who are responsible for funeral costs and in receipt of a qualifying benefit have an application for a Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payment refused because of the family tests in the eligibil |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5069 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Torsten Bell
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| Answering Member handle: |
TorstenBell
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@TorstenBell
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| Answer text: |
Table 1 shows the number of applicants responsible for funeral cost who were receipt of qualifying benefits but were refused a Funeral Expenses Payment due to the family test reasons below:There is a surviving partnerThere is a closer relativeThey are not... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |