Question follow-through · 1705
Bereavement Support Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the current 18-month entitlement period for Bereavement Support Payment.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
15 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the current 18-month entitlement period for Bereavement Support Payment.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
While this Department has not undertaken a consultation on bereavement related employment support, the rate of Bereavement Support Payment is reviewed annually on a discretionary basis as part of the annual uprating process.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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