From the latest data available, 280,780 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between May 2010 and September 2014. In the same period there have been 139,560 refusals.<\/p>
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Notes<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> 1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.<\/p> <\/p> 2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.<\/p> <\/p> 3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.<\/p> <\/p> 4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications have been made to the Government Funeral Payment scheme since May 2010; and how many such applications have been rejected.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost is to the Government for each transaction for (a) pension payments and (b) benefit payments paid into a (i) Post Office card account, (ii) bank account and (iii) simple payment scheme.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100276/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Please find below details of the volume of payments, by benefit, paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five contract years from October 2009, the start of the current Post Office card contract. As at September 2014 the proportion of POca working age customers is 41.66% and retirement customers 58.34%.<\/p> Benefit type<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Oct '09 to Mar '10<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Apr '10 to Mar '11<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Apr '11 to Mar '12<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Apr '12 to Mar '13<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Apr '13 to Mar '14<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Apr '14 to Sept '14<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Attendance Allowance <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 1,282,073<\/p><\/td> 2,646,196<\/p><\/td> 2,980,275<\/p><\/td> 3,166,677<\/p><\/td> 3,116,840<\/p><\/td> 1,538,852<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Child Support (DC) Client Fund<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2,079<\/p><\/td> 5,608<\/p><\/td> 9,178<\/p><\/td> 9,689<\/p><\/td> 7,938<\/p><\/td> 285<\/p><\/td><\/tr> CMEC<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 1,197<\/p><\/td> 3670<\/p><\/td><\/tr> CSA DWP Payments - CSA DWP<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 284,118<\/p><\/td> 557,228<\/p><\/td> 648,147<\/p><\/td> 626,507<\/p><\/td> 584,705<\/p><\/td> 268,170<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Dfee Employment Services <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 79,971<\/p><\/td> 214,855<\/p><\/td> 59,427<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td><\/tr> Disability Living Allowance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 4,090,836<\/p><\/td> 7,931,027<\/p><\/td> 7,678,957<\/p><\/td> 7,488,219<\/p><\/td> 7,179,077<\/p><\/td> 3,386,779<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DWP Local Payment<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 83,618<\/p><\/td> 149,836<\/p><\/td> 128,871<\/p><\/td> 145,018<\/p><\/td> 186,974<\/p><\/td> 75,160<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DWP Universal Credit<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 334<\/p><\/td> 634<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Incapacity Benefit<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 3,956,020<\/p><\/td> 6,640,787<\/p><\/td> 5,369,680<\/p><\/td> 3,703,178<\/p><\/td> 1,745,634<\/p><\/td> 444,821<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Income Support<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 32,694,702<\/p><\/td> 57,496,385<\/p><\/td> 48,077,834<\/p><\/td> 42,369,841<\/p><\/td> 35,144,716<\/p><\/td> 15,612,744<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Industrial Injuries<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 1,823,692<\/p><\/td> 3,499,816<\/p><\/td> 3,304,669<\/p><\/td> 3,108,446<\/p><\/td> 2,923,184<\/p><\/td> 1,391,414<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Invalid Care Allowance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2,010,877<\/p><\/td> 3,886,243<\/p><\/td> 3,685,821<\/p><\/td> 3,591,341<\/p><\/td> 3,390,941<\/p><\/td> 1,642,035<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Jobseekers Allowance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 2,126,450<\/p><\/td> 3,952,375<\/p><\/td> 4,039,600<\/p><\/td> 3,986,790<\/p><\/td> 3,154,319<\/p><\/td> 1,177,786<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Personal Independence Payment<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 15,579<\/p><\/td> 53,193<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Resource Management<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 141,271<\/p><\/td> 268,619<\/p><\/td> 206,031<\/p><\/td> 145,249<\/p><\/td> 105,362<\/p><\/td> 15,817<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Retirement Pensions<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 41,051,123<\/p><\/td> 77,838,703<\/p><\/td> 72,231,420<\/p><\/td> 69,904,004<\/p><\/td> 64,327,423<\/p><\/td> 30,210,680<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Social Fund<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 161,723<\/p><\/td> 263,709<\/p><\/td> 246,262<\/p><\/td> 270,296<\/p><\/td> 219,543<\/p><\/td> 91,450<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Employment & Support Allowance<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 339,047<\/p><\/td> 1,380,741<\/p><\/td> 2,286,925<\/p><\/td> 5,264,219<\/p><\/td> 7,812,066<\/p><\/td> 4,358,635<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Winter Fuel Payments DWP<\/strong><\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 888,462<\/p><\/td> 382<\/p><\/td> 380<\/p><\/td> 28<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many benefit payments of each type were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years; and what proportion of such recipients were (a) of working age and (b) retired.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100277/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Information about how many in-work working-age households received Winter Fuel Payments in 2013-14 is not available.<\/p> <\/p> The table below shows the number of people aged under 65 receiving a Winter Fuel Payment and the associated expenditure in years 2009-10 to 2018-19 inclusive:<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/p><\/td> Expenditure (£m)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Caseload (000s)<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009/10<\/p><\/td> 640.8<\/p><\/td> 3,358<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010/11<\/p><\/td> 624.1<\/p><\/td> 3,265<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011/12<\/p><\/td> 451.5<\/p><\/td> 2,927<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012/13<\/p><\/td> 385.4<\/p><\/td> 2,484<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013/14<\/p><\/td> 324.1<\/p><\/td> 2,056<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014/15<\/p><\/td> 268.2<\/p><\/td> 1,714<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2015/16<\/p><\/td> 215.8<\/p><\/td> 1,389<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2016/17<\/p><\/td> 157.1<\/p><\/td> 1,019<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2017/18<\/p><\/td> 85.8<\/p><\/td> 563<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2018/19<\/p><\/td> 14.8<\/p><\/td> 95<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> Notes<\/strong><\/p> Numbers are for Winter Fuel Payments made to those eligible in Great Britain, European Economic Area and Switzerland aged 60-64: outturn to 2013-14; forecast 2014/15 onwards.<\/p> Winter Fuel Payments in 2009-10 and 2010-11 included one-off £50 payments for the under 80s.<\/p> One of the Winter Fuel Payment eligibility criteria is a person\u2019s age in the qualifying week (the third full week in September). This age has been rising in line with the increase to the female State Pension age.<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many in-work working-age households received winter fuel payments in 2013-14; what estimate he has made of how many such households will be claiming winter fuel payments in each of the next four financial years; and what assessment he has made of the effect of equalising the state pension age for men and women on the take-up of winter fuel payments.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100538/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Table 1 below shows the average wait (in days) for decisions on a Social Fund application for each year from 2003 and a breakdown by application type.<\/p> <\/p> No data is provided for 2014. This is because the number of applications and waiting times vary seasonally, meaning that an average only covering part of the year is not comparable with whole year averages shown from 2003-2013.<\/p> <\/p> Average wait (days)<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Funeral Payments<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Community Care Grants<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Crisis Loans<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Budgeting Loans<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Sure Start Maternity Grants<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2003<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 13.1<\/p><\/td> 8.3<\/p><\/td> 1.2<\/p><\/td> 2.7<\/p><\/td> 4.7<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2004<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 13.5<\/p><\/td> 8.2<\/p><\/td> 1.3<\/p><\/td> 3.0<\/p><\/td> 4.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2005<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 12.1<\/p><\/td> 7.5<\/p><\/td> 1.4<\/p><\/td> 2.9<\/p><\/td> 4.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2006<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 12.5<\/p><\/td> 9.1<\/p><\/td> 1.5<\/p><\/td> 3.2<\/p><\/td> 3.9<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2007<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 13.4<\/p><\/td> 10.9<\/p><\/td> 1.6<\/p><\/td> 4.5<\/p><\/td> 4.8<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2008<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 14.3<\/p><\/td> 11.3<\/p><\/td> 1.8<\/p><\/td> 5.1<\/p><\/td> 5.3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2009<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 14.8<\/p><\/td> 13.3<\/p><\/td> 2.0<\/p><\/td> 5.3<\/p><\/td> 5.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2010<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 15.3<\/p><\/td> 8.9<\/p><\/td> 2.1<\/p><\/td> 5.4<\/p><\/td> 4.7<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2011<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 13.1<\/p><\/td> 7.5<\/p><\/td> 2.1<\/p><\/td> 5.0<\/p><\/td> 4.3<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2012<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 14.6<\/p><\/td> 7.5<\/p><\/td> 3.0<\/p><\/td> 4.9<\/p><\/td> 3.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/td> 17.1<\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> <\/p><\/td> 5.5<\/p><\/td> 4.0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> Notes<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p> 1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.<\/p> <\/p> 2. No average wait time is reported for Community Care Grants or Crisis Loans in 2013. This is because these payments were replaced by Local Welfare Provision in March 2013.<\/p> <\/p> 3. The clearance time for an individual Social Fund loan or grant is measured in whole working days from the date the application is received until the date the decision is taken. The minimum clearance time recorded for an individual case is one working day, even if the application is cleared immediately.<\/p> <\/p> 4. Cold Weather Payments are not included in Table 1. These are made automatically if the claimant is eligible at the time of the cold weather trigger, so there is no decision to be made.<\/p> <\/p> 5. All figures are provided to 1 decimal place.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average wait for a decision on a social fund application was in each year since 2003.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100539/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " From the latest data available, 305,840 applications have been made for Funeral Payments in Great Britain between January 2010 and September 2014, the latest data available. In the same period there have been 151,620 refusals.<\/p> <\/p> Table 1 below shows the number of applications and refusals for each year. Note that 2014 data only extends to September thus far.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p><\/td> 2010<\/p><\/td> 2011<\/p><\/td> 2012<\/p><\/td> 2013<\/p><\/td> 2014 (Jan-Sep)<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Applications<\/p><\/td> 66,780<\/p><\/td> 70,990<\/p><\/td> 66,390<\/p><\/td> 62,200<\/p><\/td> 39,470<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Refusals<\/p><\/td> 33,350<\/p><\/td> 36,330<\/p><\/td> 34,540<\/p><\/td> 29,200<\/p><\/td> 18,190<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> Notes<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p> 1. These figures do not include applications which were processed clerically and have not yet been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.<\/p> <\/p> 2. The figures given are the number of applications and initial refusals in the given time period and not the number of people who made applications or received awards. An individual may make more than one application in a year. Information on the number of people who made applications and received awards is not available.<\/p> .<\/p> 3. The refusal figures given are based on the initial decisions made on each case and may include cases where an award was later made on review.<\/p> <\/p> 4. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications were made to the Social Fund to cover the cost of funerals in each year since 2010; and how many of those applications were rejected.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100548/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " DWP can provide a total figure for UK benefit bank transfers for 2013/14 (including pensions) by BACS, broken down by benefit as follows:<\/p> <\/strong><\/p> Benefit<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p><\/td> Volume<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Banking Costs<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE (AA) (inc Overseas)<\/p><\/td> 14,914,870<\/p><\/td> £65,625.43<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE (DLA) (inc Overseas)<\/p><\/td> 47,522,463<\/p><\/td> £209,098.84<\/p><\/td><\/tr> EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND (ESF)<\/p><\/td> 288<\/p><\/td> £1.27<\/p><\/td><\/tr> CARERS ALLOWANCE (CA) (inc Overseas)<\/p><\/td> 27,066,880<\/p><\/td> £119,094.27<\/p><\/td><\/tr> INCAPACITY BENEFIT (INCAP)<\/p><\/td> 10,093,974<\/p><\/td> £44,413.49<\/p><\/td><\/tr> INCOME SUPPORT (IS)<\/p><\/td> 146,845,498<\/p><\/td> £646,120.19<\/p><\/td><\/tr> INDUSTRIAL INJURIES (IIDB)<\/p><\/td> 11,975,719<\/p><\/td> £52,693.16<\/p><\/td><\/tr> OVERSEAS DIVISION (ODIIDB)<\/p><\/td> 73,828<\/p><\/td> £324.84<\/p><\/td><\/tr> JSA<\/p><\/td> 30,546,139<\/p><\/td> £134,403.01<\/p><\/td><\/tr> MORTGAGE DIRECT (JSA MD)<\/p><\/td> 239,080<\/p><\/td> £1,051.95<\/p><\/td><\/tr> LPS<\/p><\/td> 71,171<\/p><\/td> £313.15<\/p><\/td><\/tr> LPS MID<\/p><\/td> 1,900<\/p><\/td> £8.36<\/p><\/td><\/tr> MORTGAGE DIRECT (MI)<\/p><\/td> 1,299,364<\/p><\/td> £5,717.20<\/p><\/td><\/tr> RETIREMENT PENSIONS<\/p><\/td> 339,855,838<\/p><\/td> £1,495,365.69<\/p><\/td><\/tr> THIRD PARTY PAYMENTS (TPP)<\/p><\/td> 44,715<\/p><\/td> £196.75<\/p><\/td><\/tr> WINTER FUEL NEW RULE (WFNR)<\/p><\/td> 953,886<\/p><\/td> £4,197.10<\/p><\/td><\/tr> SOCIAL FUND (SF)<\/p><\/td> 1,157,008<\/p><\/td> £5,090.84<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DWP ESA MID<\/p><\/td> 617,369<\/p><\/td> £2,716.42<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DWP ESA<\/p><\/td> 44,349,674<\/p><\/td> £195,138.57<\/p><\/td><\/tr> DWP CPS LOCAL PAYMENTS<\/p><\/td> 1,930,311<\/p><\/td> £8,493.37<\/p><\/td><\/tr> PIP<\/p><\/td> 282,631<\/p><\/td> £1,243.58<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Universal Credit<\/p><\/td> 13,556<\/p><\/td> £59.65<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Benefits Total<\/p><\/td> 679,559,975<\/p><\/td> £2,990,063.89<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Excluding CSA/SPVA/CMS<\/p><\/td> 686,118,046<\/p><\/td> £3,018,919.40<\/p><\/td><\/tr> TOTAL BACS<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p><\/td> 699,386,621<\/strong><\/p><\/td> £3,077,301.13<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/strong><\/p> The Department does not have the breakdown for Faster Payments by benefit type, however the total volume figure of payments is 3,261,640 and a transaction value of £526,273.<\/p>"}
, "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/220", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Webb"}
}
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, "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Steve Webb"}
, "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-10-29", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-10-29T14:27:34.093237Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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, "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Work and Pensions"}
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, "date" : {"_value" : "2014-10-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
, "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Social Security Benefits: Payments"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department spent on bank transfer transactions for each type of benefit and pension payment in the last financial year; and what the total cost was of those transfers.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
, "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4045", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Ian Swales"}
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, "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Ian Swales"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100826", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Work and Pensions"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/100826/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " DWP uses two job evaluation schemes, which are widely utilised across the Civil Service.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> 1. Job Evaluation and Grading Support (JEGS), an analytical points-based system which is used by trained evaluators to rank roles from AA to Grade 6. This also incorporates Grading Guidance which provides an analytical matching of posts based on JEGS, a good level of assurance and is less resource intensive than a full evaluation.<\/p> <\/p> 2. Job Evaluation for Senior Posts (JESP) which is similar to JEGS but used to evaluate posts in the Senior Civil Service.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> DWP evaluates all new roles and roles where there has been a fundamental or material change in job content using one of these schemes.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Information on JEGS, including use of grading guidance, is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/job-evaluation-and-grading-support-jegs-for-civil-servants<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p>