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Claim For Funeral Payment And Or Arrears Of Benefit

Social Security

Claim for Funeral Payment

and/or arrears of benefit

Notes

To make your claim for a Funeral Payment and/or arrears of Social Security benefits please complete this form in

Capital Letters and in ink. If you need any help, telephone us on 685106. When complete, take or send this form

together with any documents (see overleaf) to the Funeral Payments Unit, Social Security Division, Markwell

House, Market Street, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 2RZ or to either the Port Erin or Ramsey district offices.

You must do this within 12 months of the date of death or you will not be entitled to a Funeral

Payment or arrears of benefit.

Deaths for which a payment for funeral expenses can be paid

A payment towards funeral expenses may be made where the death occurs on the Island (or is treated as having

occurred on the Island) and the deceased was at the date of death:

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ordinarily resident in the Island; or

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absent from the Island being abroad as a serving member of HM Forces; or

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abroad living with a serving member of HM Forces and was the spouse, civil partner, son, daughter,

father or mother of that person (provided the funeral takes place in the Island).

Deaths occurring outside the Island treated as having occurred on the Island

A death occurring outside the Island will be treated as having occurred on the Island where:

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the deceased’s absence from the Island was intended to be temporary and had not lasted for a

continuous period of more than 26 weeks; or

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the deceased’s absence was for the specific purpose of personal medical treatment which commenced

before he or she left the Island.

The amount of the Funeral Payment

The Funeral Payment for a death occurring in the Island where the burial or cremation takes place in the Island,

or for a death occurring outside the Island (but which can be treated as having occurred in the Island) where the

burial or cremation takes place outside the Island in both cases is paid at the standard rate.

A higher rate is payable where the death occurs outside the Island (but which can be treated as having occurred

in the Island) and the deceased’s body is returned to the Island for burial or cremation.

The current rates of the Funeral Payment can be found in leaflet BP196 – Benefit Rates or on the Isle of Man

Government website at

The Treasury

Yn Tashtey

SF1/BP20 October 2014

Claim For Funeral Payment And Or Arrears Of Benefit