DWP and funeral grant, more information needed?

Yorkshireman99

cappuchinokid wrote: »

I am glad my mum is not on the internet to read this - maybe we should have just built a bonfire in the garden and tipped him on that! £3000 is what you are looking at for a basic funeral these days, you have no idea what you are talking about. Have you any idea what the crematorium fees, certificates, etc, cost? This thread is about the difficulties getting the DWP to pay out money they agree the next of kin is entitled to claim towards the cost of the funeral. If you can't help with that then stay off this thread.

You are wrong about the cost of a basic funeral that the local authority will pay for that is well under £1,500.

missbiggles1

paddedjohn wrote: »

Why do people who have no cash see the need to pay out upwards of £3000 for a funeral when they could get input done for sub £1000. The body can be collected direct from the hospital and a home made coffin could be used to transport the body in the back of an estate car or hire van to the local crematorium which can be as cheap as £300. All the frill and whistles are only there to make the funeral directors rich.

I agree.

My husband died last October and we had a lovely, simple funeral (no homemade coffin though) which cost less than £2k.

Tigsteroonie

It all comes down to what is expected of a "decent send off".

But none of this helps the OP