DWP Threatened To Cut Terminally Ill Woman’s Benefits- If She Paid For Her Own Funeral
A terminally-ill woman was told by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that she risked being charged with an “offence” and would lose part of her benefits if she used an insurance policy windfall to pay for her own funeral.
DWP bosses told Sue Smith that spending the £3,700 in advance on her funeral would be seen as “deprivation of capital” – deliberately spending her savings in order to maintain entitlement to benefits.
Smith, from south Devon, had contacted DWP after being told about the £3,700 refund, because she wanted to be sure that she did not fall foul of any regulations if she spent the money on paying in advance for her funeral.
But when she approached DWP, and made it clear that she was terminally-ill, she was told that she could lose part of her employment and support allowance (ESA) payment – she has estimated that it could have cost her about £15 a week – and could even be seen as committing an “offence”.
Smith, who uses oxygen 24-hours-a-day, said she felt “threatened, hurt and distressed” by the warning, and was now at her “wit’s end”.
Full story at the Disability News Service.
I have no words, except to say that this needs to be shared as widely as possible because people need to know that it appears to be a crime in the eyes of the DWP for benefit claimants to pay for their own funerals.
Same Difference 
Just do it and tell the cunts NOTHING
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surely we are allowed to spend a few pounds a month on making sure our kids don’t have to pay for our funerals. the grief is bad enough. less than 2 yrs ago my kids lost their father. he had no insurance, no savings etc.yet they had to still find 750 quid towards his funeral because dss wouldn’t give them full costs.wouldn’t even pay for a wreath from them both … i had to help out. and they had to find ways of paying the rest off.i vowed i wouldn’t put them through that again and have been paying more insurance out of my pension ever since. reading this, will my kids not be allowed to use that insurance to pay for my funeral?
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