I dont know what happened, my mother has always insisted on insurance for her children or grandchildren, now since I have been caring for her, I have found no insurance policies and have seen no statements for insurance bills. How am I going to be able to bury my mom when the time comes?
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I'm sure she receives social security each month. Start setting aside a part of it each month in a savings account earmarked as "funeral account" so when the time comes, there will be money in it. You can actually open this type of account at any bank branch....they can call the account "Mary Jones Funeral Account" with you as the trustee. Since your sisters are NOT helping you, don't even involve them in setting up this account.
Keep the funeral simple.....you don't need to spend $10K to have a tasteful funeral. An immediate burial in a simple box (or cremation) followed by a tasteful memorial service is an inexpensive way to honor your mother.
She lives on 900.50 month no house, rents, no car. We are going to get her signed up for Medicade, in Michigan. She has three small insurance policies
we thought they would be okay to keep if she went on Medicade, but we called each one and she has built up equity in each policy. So we have a cash out valvue of 7,356.00. So can we keep these or will Medicade take the money when she goes on Medicade? If they take the money who is going to bury her?
When MA buries the indigent for free, it happens when they deem it will happen (often weeks or months after the death) and where it will happen (any cemetery). There is NO wake, NO funeral mass, NO flowers, NO bells and whistles...so no, you don't get a free funeral...you get a free simple casket and a plot (which is more than most states do, but is NOT a free funeral)
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