Question follow-through · 77423
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of doubling the funding for Bereavement Support Payments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of doubling the funding for Bereavement Support Payments.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Bereavement Support Payment helps ease the immediate financial pressures following a bereavement by way of an initial lump sum and up to 18 monthly instalments. Longer-term support is available through income replacement benefits such as Universal Credit....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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