Help with funeral costs
We are not able to guarantee the availability of any social fund funeral payments as every family circumstance will differ.
The social fund may make a contribution towards the cost of a simple funeral within the United Kingdom.
This includes:
- Conveying the deceased to our funeral home Chapel if they died away from home but within the United Kingdom.
- Cemetery fees or Cremation fees.
- Contribution towards the fees of the funeral director.
- Doctors fees.
You can get help with the cost of the funeral if you or your partner gets one of the following qualifying benefits or entitlements:
- Income Support.
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance.
- Pension Credits.
- Housing Benefits.
- Council Tax Benefit.
- Working Tax Credit which includes a disability or severe disability element.
- Child Tax Credit at a rate higher than the family element.
Full details are available on the notes sheet which comes with Funeral Payment from the Social Fund form SF200.
If you are refused a funeral payment from the social fund you may be eligible to:
- Apply for a Budgeting loan from the social fund using form SF500.
- Apply for a Crisis loan from the social fund using form SF401.
Check if there is any money available from:
- Bank or Building Society accounts of the deceased.
- Insurance Death Policies.
- Charity Grants.
- Any lump sum payments made by a pension scheme or relative, (either yours or those of the deceased).
- Any savings you have in a bank or building society.
- Premium Bonds.
- National Savings.
- Cash.
