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<p>Data on the amount claimed for Funeral Expenses Payments (FEPs) is not collated
centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The number
of FEP applications received by the DWP and awards as a proportion of FEP applications
processed, in each calendar year since 2005, are given below in table 1. They are
rounded to the nearest 0.1%. Figures are not given for 2018 as the calendar year is
incomplete.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the timing of application processing, figures on
awards may relate to applications processed in the previous year.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table
1: FEP applications received and proportion of FEP applications resulting in an award,
Great Britain 2005 - 2017</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Applications
received (000s)</p></td><td><p>Awards as a proportion of applications processed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>68.5</p></td><td><p>62.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>67.7</p></td><td><p>61.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>63.8</p></td><td><p>61.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>67.5</p></td><td><p>59.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>68.9</p></td><td><p>58.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>66.8</p></td><td><p>56.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>54.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>66.4</p></td><td><p>54.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>62.2</p></td><td><p>56.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>52.5</p></td><td><p>59.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>46.6</p></td><td><p>62.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>44.3</p></td><td><p>60.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>41.8</p></td><td><p>61.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Source: Social Fund Policy, Budget, and Management Information System</p><p>
</p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>These figures do not include applications that were
processed clerically and have not been entered on to the Social Fund Computer System.</li><li>Figures
on applications received differ from the number of applications processed by the DWP.
Some applications may have been withdrawn before a decision was made.</li><li>The
number of applications made in each year is not equal to the number of people who
made applications in that year. An individual may make multiple applications in a
given time period.</li><li>The proportion of FEP claims resulting in an award is calculated
by dividing the number of awards in a given year by the number of applications processed
by the DWP in a given year. The number of awards used in this calculation includes
awards made after review, reconsideration or appeal following an initial refusal.</li></ul><p>
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