FUNERAL PLANNING
Help with costs
On benefits? Looking for a cheaper Funeral? Across Ayrshire and Kilmarnock. We can offer you the following help with your funeral:
Social Fund – Funeral Payment
If you or your partner are on low income benefit and need help towards the cost of a funeral, you may be elligable for a Funeral Payment. The claim form below has notes to help you fill it in. After completing the form please send or take it to your local Job centre Office. Below are several benefits that may mean you qualify:- Pension Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Council Tax Benefit (or the Council Tax payer where you live gets a Second Adult Rebate because you are on a low income)
- Working Tax Credit which includes a disability or severe disability element
- Child Tax Credit at a rate higher than the family element
pdf icon Download a Funeral Payment claim form (pdf)
Social Fund – Loan
If you need help to pay for a funeral you may qualify for a loan. You will have to pay the loan back, but you will not have to pay interest on it. You may be able to receive a loan if you have been getting income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, pension credit or payment on account of one of these benefits or entitlements for at least 26 weeks. The claim form below has notes to help you fill it in. Once you have completed the form please send or take it to your local Job Centre office.
pdf icon Download a Budgeting Loan application form (pdf)
Social Fund – Widows / Widowers Bereavement Payment
These bereavement payments and widowed parent's allowance are all based on your spouse or civil partner's national insurance (NI) contributions. By your spouse or civil partner we mean the person you were legally married to, or were in a civil partnership with, at the time of their death. YThe claim form below has notes to help you fill it in. Once you have completed the form please send or take it to your local Job Centre office.
pdf icon Download a bereavement benefits claim form (pdf)
