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The Boston Globe Consumer Beat Column.
Byline: Bruce Mohl
Oct. 28--BAY STATE DOES NOT PAY FULL COST OF FUNERALS FOR THE POOR: Everyone eventually dies, but is everyone, no matter what their financial circumstances, entitled to a funeral and a burial when they go?
That's the question states and municipalities across the nation are grappling with as the economy weakens and budgets tighten.
Ohio this summer became the latest state to halt funding for indigent burials because of budgetary pressures. By some estimates, nearly a third of the states refuse to cover funeral and burial expenses for people on state assistance programs.
Many other states and municipalities provide aid, but amounts vary widely. Los Angeles County, for example, will cremate an indigent person but it won't pay for more expensive funeral and burial costs. Connecticut will pay a maximum of $1,200 for death expenses, while Illinois recently increased its maximum grant to $1,500 and is scheduled to hike it again next year.
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