That's for sure! The ceremony allowance will increase to PLN 7000. This group will not pay a penny

Poles have long wondered since the ceremony allowance increased. It aims to compensate for the costs associated with the organisation of the burial. So far it was PLN 4,000. president Andrzej Duda has now signed an amendment to the bill.
A ceremony allowance is simply a one-time cash benefit paid by the Social Insurance Institution to cover the burial costs of the deceased. It can be received by persons who actually paid for the ceremony and have papers that confirm it, for example the invoice. This includes members of family, employer, social assistance house, municipality, region or spiritual institution.

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Funeral allowance 2025. shortly Poles will receive more money
As of 2011, the amount of the ceremony allowance is PLN 4000. Soon, however, this will change. president Andrzej Duda signed an amendment to the Act on Pensions and Pensions from the Social Insurance Fund. It will increase the amount of the benefit to PLN 7000. The increase will enter into force from 1 January 2026. The changes were prepared by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. The ceremony allowance will be valued from 1 March if inflation exceeds 5% in the erstwhile year. The fresh rules besides mention to the rule of accounting for the alleged special-purpose allowance. It shall be awarded to a individual who:


paid for the funeral, if no allowance is due after the deceased,
has paid for ceremony expenses, is entitled to a ceremony allowance and has incurred extraordinary costs, hard to foretell and impossible to cover with a ceremony allowance, specified as the removal of dead bodies from abroad.


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Who doesn't get a ceremony allowance? 1 group was excluded
As you can read on gov.pl, a ceremony allowance can be given to anyone who meets 1 of the following conditions:

is covered by pension insurance in ZUS, receives a pension or a pension and the deceased was from his family,
the deceased was covered by a pension insurance in ZUS, was receiving a pension or a pension or fulfilled the conditions for receiving a pension or pension,
the deceased had no insurance, but he collected sickness benefit or rehabilitation after the insurance had stopped.

The benefit shall not be granted to persons who have not borne the cost of the funeral, even if they are close to the deceased. It is worth noting that, in the light of insurance regulations, the members of the household entitled to a ceremony allowance include: spouse (including widower), parents (including stepmother/father), siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, biological children, adopted, replacements and another persons exercising legal care over the deceased. In this context, in-laws are not members of the immediate family, so they may find it hard to get reimbursement for ceremony expenses. If they want to make certain they get a ceremony allowance, they have to:


Find out who formally covers the ceremony expenses. It's best if it's individual from the closest household to the deceased.
Collect complete documentation, i.e. invoices, bills and another evidence of incurred costs.
Make an application within the time limit. papers must be delivered to ZUS within 12 months of the date of death.

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