249.9 - FUNERAL EXPENSES.
249.9 FUNERAL EXPENSES.
The department may pay, from funds appropriated to it for the
purpose, a maximum of four hundred dollars toward funeral expenses on
the death of a person receiving state supplementary assistance or who
received assistance under a previous categorical assistance program
prior to January 1, 1974, provided:
1. The decedent does not leave an estate which may be probated
with sufficient proceeds to allow for payment of the funeral claim.
2. Payments which are due the decedent's estate or beneficiary by
reason of the liability of a life insurance, death or funeral benefit
company, association or society, or in the form of United States
social security, railroad retirement, or veterans' benefits upon the
death of the decedent, are deducted from the department's liability
under this section. Section History: Early Form
[C35, § 5296-f25; C39, § 3684.17, 3828.021; C46, 50, 54, 58, §
241.17, 249.18; C62, 66, 71, 73, § 241.17, 241A.11, 249.18; C75, 77,
79, 81, § 249.9] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 153, § 11; 84 Acts, ch 1297, § 1