welfare funerals
I live in America which is a representative democracy with the freedom for individuals to attain through education, hard work, creative enterprise, investment, and sometimes just plain luck the ability to gain and collect more resources than others. To that same end, the country offers no guarantee that your work and life will end…
Read MoreAs America is gearing up for its 2020 elections we hear a lot of campaign rhetoric about the haves and the have nots. One of the statistics that you hear is that of a Federal Reserve survey that contends that 40% of U.S. adults said they couldn’t easily cover an unplanned expense of $400. So,…
Read MoreAlana Durkin Richer of the Associated Press compiled a good article that appeared in the Detroit News that you can read here. The article is on the growing problem of what to do with indigent bodies when states or municipalities responsible for them are either running out of money or the expected reimbursement to funeral…
Read MoreI found it a little different when I read an editorial in the West Virginia Gazette Mail that you can read here. I’m pretty used to editorials telling us what political candidate to pick, or what side of the right to life to be on, or what side of gun owernship to be on. I’ve…
Read MoreBy a vote of 65-33 the West Virginia House passed on Wednesday their Indigent Funeral Bill that will now move on to the state’s Senate. The somewhat conroversial bill reduces the price paid to funeral directors to $1000 per service from the current payment of $1250. However, the bill also names disposition by cremation as…
Read MoreThe other day I was going thru my daily articles of the industry when I came across two articles, that while not unique to what I read, caused me to pause to think — “How will we solve these problems?” Because, I don’t think that these problems are going to go away with out some…
Read MoreAn interesting bill that may have ramifications for beyond West Virginia was recently referred to the West Virginia House Finance Committee. The bill, which should come up for debate and possible vote this session stems from the fact that the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources ran out of indigent burial funding last…
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