Qualifications

For a Funeral Grant to be paid:

• the deceased person must have been ordinarily resident in New Zealand when they died and
• their reasonable funeral expenses are unable to be met by the:
  • deceased person's estate
  • assets of a surviving partner in excess of the asset exemption
  • combined assets of the parents of a deceased child, in excess of the asset exemption

An income test must also be met by any surviving partner or the parents' of a deceased child.

Note a Funeral Grant must not be paid if other specified funding is available.

For more information see:

• Funeral is funded elsewhere