HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION FUNERAL RULE
The Funeral Consumer Guardian Society believes it is in the best interest of families everywhere to be aware of their consumer rights, as expressed in this important law-enacted in 1984 to stop the funeral home industry from manipulating people into buying goods and services they didn't want or need...and paying outrageously marked-up prices on the items they did want.
General price list (GPL)
spelen online omaha hi lo A funeral home must provide a dated price list before arrangement discussions begin. Package pricing is allowed, but a funeral home must also have the separately itemized GPL.
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If calling for price information, a funeral home is required to give accurate numbers for anything on their GPL, casket price list or outer-burial container price list.
Casket price list
bed and breakfast cheap hotels Lagos Funeral homes are required to have a dated, printed casket price list that also lists alternative containers. If one goes in-person, this list must be offered before being shown the caskets.
Itemized statement of goods and services
Once arrangements are made, a funeral home must provide a statement itemizing each service and product chosen, separate cost of each and the total cost.
Embalming
A disclosure statement on the GPL must notify the customer when embalming is not required by law. A funeral home may not embalm without prior consent.Casket
A funeral home may not refuse a casket bought elsewhere, or charge a handling fee.
Preservation and protective claims
A funeral home cannot tell you that embalming, sealer caskets or sealer burial vaults will preserve the deceased indefinitely. Nor can they claim such features will keep out water or dirt if this is not true.