7 AAC 47.130 - Funeral and burial expenses
(a) The department
will pay general relief assistance to a vendor for basic funeral and burial
services provided in the state at the rates published in that vendor's general
price list, up to a maximum payment of $1250 to each vendor for each deceased
person. Basic funeral and burial services include
(1) preparation and embalming;
(2) provision of a cloth-covered casket with
at least four handles and a padded and lined interior, which is similar to
Sound Casket Company No. 199 gray domet or Puget Sound Casket Co. No. 0 gray
flannel square;
(3) one chapel
service at the vendor's place of business;
(4) use of a hearse; and
(5) use of other facilities and equipment
necessary for burial or cremation if the next-of-kin requests
cremation.
(b) In
addition to the payment for basic funeral and burial services identified in (a)
of this section, the department will pay general relief assistance for
additional necessary services or expenses provided in the state, including
(1) the cost of the least expensive municipal
or private cemetery plot that is reasonably available in the locality where the
deceased is to be buried;
(2) the
reasonable cost of cremation if the next-of-kin requests cremation;
(3) the reasonable cost of opening and
closing the grave;
(4) the cost of
a hermetic sealer, oversized casket, clothing, extraordinarily lengthy storage,
and other extraordinary expenses necessary because of special circumstances, if
the division authorizes the service before the service is rendered;
(5) the reasonable cost of transporting the
deceased from the place of death to a place of burial in a different locality
if transportation of the deceased is requested by the next-of-kin and
(A) it is less costly to transport the
deceased than to provide for burial at the place of death; or
(B) before death, the deceased was
transported from the deceased's last place of residence to the place of death
at the expense of the department; and
(6) a processing charge equal to 10 percent
of the amount of a payment a vendor makes directly to a cemetery or a provider
of transportation for any reimbursable service listed in (1) - (5) of this
subsection.
(c) The
department will make only one assistance payment for services under (a) and (b)
of this section. That assistance payment will be made to
(1) the vendor that prepares the deceased
person for burial or cremation; or
(2) each vendor, if the services of one
vendor are necessary at the place of death and the services of another vendor
are necessary at the place of burial, except that the department will only pay
one vendor for a chapel service.
(d) The department will, in its discretion,
pay general relief assistance for the reasonable cost of necessary funeral and
burial services provided outside the state for a person who was transported
outside the state at the expense of the department for medical treatment and
died while outside the state for treatment. If the next-of-kin requests that
the deceased be returned to the state for burial, the department will pay the
reasonable costs of transporting the deceased from the place of death to the
place of burial.
(e) The vendor
shall immediately refund to the department a payment received from a resource
defined in 7 AAC 47.160(b)
for an expense paid under this section.
(f) At least once every three years, the
department will review the maximum payment level in (a) of this section for
basic funeral and burial services.
(g) In this section "vendor" means an
individual or business that provides funeral and burial services.
Notes
Authority:AS 47.05.010
AS 47.25.120
AS 47.25.300
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