By IL Radio Network
Springfield, IL – Pauper funerals in under a bill which the House is considering - though not without a grilling of the new head of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association.
State Representative Dan Brady, who is a veteran of the funeral home business, says IFDA executive director Duane Marsh has a lot of gall to ask for more money when for one, the state is in poor financial condition anyway and two, an account funded by consumers' pre-need contracts has lost more than $50 million.
The bill would increase funeral directors' compensation from Public Aid by 34-dollars for a funeral and by 17-dollars for a cremation or burial.
Brady's sponsoring a separate bill requiring disclosure of financing options on such contracts.
The bill has passed the House Executive Committee.
