Apply for a Funeral Payment

If you or your partner are getting a low income benefit and need help towards the cost of a funeral, you may be able to get a Funeral Payment.

How to use this service

Use the links below to download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.

Claim Online

You cannot claim a Funeral Payment online.

Download a form

Funeral payment form:

• Funeral Payment Form SF200 (PDF 2.6MB)
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You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

• post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
• hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.

Ask for a form

You can get Funeral Payment forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

More useful links

• Funeral Payments (money, tax and benefits)
• Death and bereavement (government, citizens and rights section)