Mark Lazarowicz – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Lazarowicz on 2014-07-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average time is taken to process an application for funeral expenses from the Social Fund from the time an application is submitted to a decision being taken.

Steve Webb

The clearance time for Funeral Payments, as published in the 2012/13 Social Fund Annual report, is an average of 14.76 days, against a target of 16 days