– We know that the funeral allowance has not been indexed for many years and we see room for its increase to over PLN 6,000. PLN 450. We want this allowance to increase to this amount – he commented on the air Polsat News Andrzej DomaĆski in mid-August this year. The head of the Ministry of Finance added that the ministry is, however, aware of “certain risks related to this project”. – We do not want the prices of funeral services to increase – said the minister then.
Will the funeral allowance be increased? The ministries responded
A journalist recently returned to the issue of possible increases in the funeral allowance RMF FM MichaĆ DobroĆowicz. He asked about the issue of benefits in… Ministry of Financewhich, interestingly, then referred him to the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.
The ministry provided a much more extensive answer to the journalist. “We would like to inform you that the draft act on the funeral allowance was the subject of arrangements, public consultations and opinions, and then was submitted for consideration by the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers. According to the announcement sent by the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers, in connection with […] the need to secure financial resources to remove the effects floodthe bill was removed from the agenda of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers on September 19, 2024. Consideration of this bill was postponed until the decision on the possibility of continuing work on the proposed solutions,” said the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy.
The current amount of the benefit is said to be too low. The industry is sounding the alarm
Currently, the funeral allowance amounts to PLN 4,000, unchanged since 2011. zlotys. As usual we informedaccording to the funeral industry, an increase in this amount is very much needed. – We have repeatedly drawn attention to the need to urgently increase this benefit […]. Today, when we face successive waves of growth prices electricity, gas and fuel, which undoubtedly increase the costs of producing coffins, urns and maintaining cold stores […]force things the costs associated with preparing the entire funeral ceremony will also increase significantly – commented the president of the Polish Chamber of the Funeral Industry, Robert CzyĆŒak, quoted by portalsamorzadowy.pl.