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As with so many other businesses in the current credit crunch, the undertakers face a liquidity problem. And it's not only among the state-assisted burials for the destitute that earnings are down: Many middle-class families pay for funeral services with profits from the sale of the deceased...
"Many of us are being forced to sideline our compassion and demand that payments for all expenses be paid up front," says Dominic Maguire, spokesman for the NAFD and a funeral director in Glasgow. "It's simple: if [welfare payments] are delayed, you will see a growing number of bodies...
Daniel Kawczynski, the member of parliament who has raised the issue in the House of Commons after being contacted by funeral directors in his constituency, says the problem could be solved if the government department responsible for welfare payments, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), met its target by...
Clive Pugh, a funeral director in Shrewsbury, western England who contacted Kawczynski on the matter, says he has a cremation service scheduled for Oct. 17 for a 77-year-old welfare recipient who died on 13 August. The man's body has been kept, since the summer, in the freezer...
Pugh says some of the difficulty of retrieving funeral costs from families comes from their sense of closure following burial. "After funerals emotions change so much; people put the death behind them, move on, and it can be difficult to get them to address anything to do with the funeral...