More than 250 people in South Yorkshire have had ‘paupers’ funerals’ in less than three years – dying too poor to pay for their own.
Since April 2012, 258 people have had ‘public health funerals’, in which councils pay because there is either no-one willing or able to do so
Freedom of Information requests have revealed more than £235,000 has been spent on the funerals by Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley councils in that time.