Bereavement Support Payment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were denied Bereavement Support Payments in (a) 2024 and (b) 2023 due to their deceased partner not having made the necessary national insurance contributions.
Answered by Andrew Western
Table 1: Number of Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) claims disallowed due to the deceased partner having insufficient National Insurance Contributions during 2023 and 2024
| 2023 | 2024 |
Number of claims disallowed | 1660 | 530 |
Notes
- Figures for 2023 covers the period of January 2023 to December 2023
- Figures for 2024 only covers the period of January 2024 to March 2024
- The number of claims disallowed have been rounded to the nearest 10
Source: https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/
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