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<p>The Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables are published by the department after
each fiscal event and contain outturn and forecast expenditure for all Bereavement
Related Benefits including Widow’s Pension (WP), Widowed Mother’s Allowance (WMA),
Bereavement Allowance (BA), Widowed Parent’s Allowance (WPA) and Bereavement Support
Payment (BSP). Table 1 shows expenditure on Bereavement Related Benefits for the requested
years from the latest release of these tables published after Spring Statement 2018.
Table 2 shows forecast expenditure on Bereavement Support Payments, also from the
same source.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Outturn Expenditure, £m 2018/19 prices</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bereavement
Related Benefits</p></td><td><p>629</p></td><td><p>607</p></td><td><p>601</p></td><td><p>576</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Table 2: Forecast Expenditure, £m, 2018/19 prices</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bereavement
Support Payment</p></td><td><p>115</p></td><td><p>199</p></td><td><p>206</p></td><td><p>203</p></td><td><p>198</p></td><td><p>195</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The department publishes caseload information on Bereavement Benefits
and Widow’s Benefits recipients on on-line via Stat Xplore. These can be broken down
by benefit type to show which claims have dependent children. Table 3 below shows
caseload data from November of the requested years from Stat Xplore. The caseload
is the number of claims in payment during the month in question.</p><p> </p><p>Table
3: Caseload</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Nov-13</p></td><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>Nov-15</p></td><td><p>Nov-16</p></td></tr><tr><td
rowspan="2"><p>Caseload</p></td><td><p>WMA or WPA with dependent children</p></td><td><p>46,300</p></td><td><p>45,300</p></td><td><p>44,200</p></td><td><p>43,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>WP,
BA or WMA/WPA without dependent children</p></td><td><p>50,100</p></td><td><p>47,700</p></td><td><p>46,200</p></td><td><p>45,700</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>The forecast volume of claimants for Bereavement Support Payment, broken down
by whether the claim is Standard Rate or Higher Rate is shown in Table 4. Claimants
with dependent children and entitled to Child Benefit, or who were pregnant, when
their husband, wife or civil partner died will get the higher rate. These forecasts
are consistent with the caseload forecasts published in the Spring Statement 2018
Benefit Expenditure and Caseload Tables, and represent average caseloads over the
full financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Table 4: Bereavement Support Payment Forecast Caseload</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caseload
- Standard Rate</p></td><td><p>19,000</p></td><td><p>49,000</p></td><td><p>53,000</p></td><td><p>53,000</p></td><td><p>54,000</p></td><td><p>53,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Caseload
- Higher Rate</p></td><td><p>3,000</p></td><td><p>8,000</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td><td><p>9,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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