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MAGGIEW
                              

Adviser, DIAL - Cornwall
Member since
02nd Feb 2005

Funeral Payment
Wed 02-Feb-05 02:21 PM

Hi
Hope someone can help. Have a client that has been refused Social Fund Funeral Payment as the body was donated for medical research and therefore there was no ''burial or cremation''. Client's costs include Undertakers costs and memorial service. Can anyone one give me any advice as this is not one I've come across before.
Many Thanks
Maggie

  

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carol obeirne
                              

welfare rights unit, cardiff council
Member since
20th Jul 2004

RE: Funeral Payment
Wed 02-Feb-05 03:13 PM

The SF regs define "funeral" as a buriel or cremation. The commentary in Mesher says that this is quite separate from any memorial service.

  

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