Social Fund payments fall to the lowest level in five years
NAFD consultation responses highlights frailties and inadequacy of current benefit Over the summer, the Government reported that £38.6 million was paid out in Social Fund Funeral Expenses Payments (FEP) in the year to July 2017, compared to £40 million in 2015-2016 and just over £44 million in both of the previous two years. In 2012-13,…
