The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005

Provision against double payment: funeral payments

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

[F14.(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no funeral payment shall be made under these Regulations if such a payment has already been made in respect of any funeral expenses arising from the death of the same person.

(2) A further funeral payment may be made in respect of any funeral expenses arising from the death of a person in respect of which such a payment has already been made where—

(a)the decision pursuant to which the funeral payment was awarded has been revised; and

(b)the further amount of the award as revised, together with the amount of the funeral payment already paid in respect of the death of that person, does not exceed the amount of any funeral payment which may be awarded pursuant to regulation 9.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 3A, 4 substituted (13.12.2010) for reg. 4 by Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2760) , regs. 1 , 2(4)