Question follow-through · 2922
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were denied Bereavement Support Payments in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were denied Bereavement Support Payments in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023.
5 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
Table 1: Number of Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) claims disallowed during 2023 and 2024 20232024Number of claims disallowed62402300 Notes- Figures for 2023 covers the period of January 2023 to December 2023- Figures for 2024 only covers the period of ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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