Gelderland • Funeral Assist (2024)

FAQs

What happens to a body if no one can pay for a funeral? ›

If you cannot afford a burial or cremation, you can sign a form with the county coroner's office and the state will bury or cremate the body for you. This will be at no cost, but you won't have any say in where or how.

Social Security offers a one-time, lump-sum payment of $255 to assist with funeral costs, including cremation costs. Social Security's death benefit program was established in 1935 and the payment was capped in 1954.

Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA)

If the deceased person was eligible for MassHealth, DTA offers up to $1100 paid directly to the funeral home, provided that total funeral expenses do not exceed a cap of $3500.

Does Indiana State Offer any financial assistance towards cremation costs? The State of Indiana provides burial assistance for those who are eligible in specific categories of Medicaid. Only funeral homes and cemeteries can file on behalf of the deceased, and the claim must be submitted within 90 days of death.

Options for funding a funeral

Ask your loved one's family and friends to help chip in. Their religious community may be generous, or consider setting up a GoFundMe. The funeral home may be willing to offer a payment plan, or to change the arrangements to reduce costs. Consider getting a funeral loan.

Provides the opportunity to say farewell to someone who has died in your own time, and in a way they find more personal, more fitting and more satisfying. People who cannot afford a traditional funeral. Because of its simplicity, direct cremation or burial is the cheapest way of disposing of the deceased.

A surviving spouse or child may receive a special lump-sum death payment of $255 if they meet certain requirements. Social Security's Lump Sum Death Payment (LSDP) is federally funded and managed by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

benefits, you must return the benefits received for the month of death and any later months. If the payment was received by direct deposit, contact the bank or other financial institution. Ask them to return any funds received for the month of death or later. If the benefit was paid by check, please do not cash.

It's cheaper to pay for your funeral plan upfront or over 12 months if interest free. It won't cover all funeral costs such as funeral notices, embalming, the headstone, or a burial plot.

Pricing. A complete basic cremation can be done in MA for $1,195 with no hidden fees.

Can MassHealth take my inheritance? ›

MassHealth is required by law to recover money from the estates of some MassHealth members after they die. This process is called “estate recovery”.

If you qualify for Medicare/Medi-Cal.

Medicare/Medi-Cal covers funeral costs up to a certain amount, depending on where the death occurred and whether it was in a hospital or nursing home: $700 for burial and $1,500 for cremation (if the decedent was not in a hospital or nursing home).

In Indiana, there are no laws requiring embalming.

Unlike in some states, cremation laws in Indiana are fairly clear. To start, the law says that cremated remains can be kept by anyone who is legally entitled to own them, such as the next of kin.

If there are no guests expected at a pre-planned funeral service at my location, the arranger will often sit in and be the one attendee. Everyone deserves some dignity, and for someone to offer to be the last listening ear for a funeral sermon is an honorable choice to make.

A Public Health Funeral, also known as a Welfare Funeral, is arranged under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984 Section 46. Local authorities arrange funerals for those who die without anyone willing or able to make the arrangements.

If they don't claim it, or if no next-of-kin was ever identified, then the body is cremated and the county covers the cost. In the most straightforward cases, the next-of-kin is contacted and agrees to retrieve the body.

If the human remains are properly preserved they can be stored for longer periods of time. In most cases, so long as the remains are properly refrigerated, funeral homes can store a body for a few days to a few weeks.