Select Committee · Work and Pensions Committee

Support for the bereaved

Status: Closed Opened: 4 Mar 2019 Closed: 5 Nov 2019 1 report

This follow-up inquiry comes two years on from the implementation of Bereavement Support Payment. It will look at how the new benefit it is working in practice, and press the Government on its progress in responding to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling, which found that the restriction of Widowed Parents Allowance to only those parents …

Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
1st Report - Bereavement Support Payment HC 85 22 Oct 2019 0

Oral evidence sessions

3 sessions
Date Witnesses
17 Jul 2019 Session View ↗
19 Jun 2019 Session View ↗
5 Jun 2019 Session View ↗

Correspondence

7 letters
DateDirectionTitle
5 Nov 2019 To cttee Letter from Minister for Welfare Delivery, re uprating Funeral Expenses Payment…
5 Nov 2019 To cttee Letter from Minister for Welfare Delivery, re uprating Funeral Expenses Payment…
5 Nov 2019 To cttee Letter from Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister for Family Support, Housing and Child…
4 Nov 2019 To cttee Letter from Justin Tomlinson, Minister for Family Support, re Widowed Parents A…
28 Aug 2019 To cttee Letter from Will Quince MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Family S…
7 Jun 2019 To cttee Letter from Shirley-Anne Somerville, MSP Cabinet Secretary for Social Security …
9 Apr 2019 To cttee Letter from the Chair to Will Quince MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State…