Paying for a funeral

Please make your cheque payable to W. A. Truelove & Son Ltd.

We accept all major credit cards (except American Express) – Please contact us on 020 8642 8211 for further details.

If there are sufficient funds in the deceased’s account, payment can be presented to the bank using our invoice and a copy of the Death Certificate.

If you are responsible for paying for a funeral and you or your partner are in receipt of one of the following benefits or tax credits, you may be eligible for a Funeral Payment from the Social Fund:

  • Income Support,
  • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance,
  • income-related Employment and Support Allowance,
  • Pension Credit,
  • Housing Benefit,
  • Council Tax Benefit (or if the Council Tax payer where you live receives a Second Adult Rebate because you are on low income),
  • Working Tax Credit which includes a disability or severe disability element,
  • Child Tax Credit at a higher rate than the family element.

The term “partner” in this context means:

  • a person you are married to, or a person you live with as if you are married to them,
  • a civil partner, or person you live with as if you are civil partners.

A Funeral Payment includes the necessary burial or cremation fees plus up to £1,000 for the funeral director’s charges, coffin and flowers.

For further information, please click here.

BEREAVEMENT PAYMENT
If your husband, wife or civil partner has died, you may be eligible for a Bereavement Payment, which is a one-off, tax-free, lump-sum payment of £2,000.

If you are in receipt of State Retirement Pension when your husband, wife or civil partner dies, you do not need to make a claim, as long as the other requirements are met. You will automatically receive the Bereavement Payment when you inform the Department of Work and Pensions of their death.

For further information, please click here.

BEREAVEMENT ALLOWANCE
The Bereavement Allowance is a taxable weekly benefit, payable for up to 52 weeks after the death of your husband, wife or civil partner.

For further information, please click here.

Widowed Parent’s Allowance is a weekly payment payable to a parent whose husband, wife or civil partner has died and who has at least one child for whom they receive Child Benefit.

For further information, please click here.

Following lobbying by the National Association of Funeral Directors, the Department for Work and Pensions now accept that certain funeral expenses can be one of the qualifying criteria for applying for a Budgeting Loan.

You will have to pay a Budgeting Loan back, but there will not be any interest.

For further information, please click here.

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