Question follow-through · 2205
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to increase Bereavement Support Payments in line with inflation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to increase Bereavement Support Payments in line with inflation.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2024
Answer published
Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) helps people through the immediate period following a bereavement by way of an initial lump sum followed by up to 18 monthly instalments. Where longer-term financial support is needed, benefits such as Universal Credit ha...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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