"With undertakers unable to extend credit, some poor families are having to wait more than two months before receiving government help paying for funerals [...] Bereaved families can apply to the Department for Work and Pensions if they can prove they are receiving state benefit payments and cannot afford to foot the bill [...] John Weir, of the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors, said his colleagues were in an "impossible" position because they could not afford to extend credit."
Yahoo News/AFP on Sunday, October 12 2008.
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Even the dead are godforsaken in the financial crisis ...
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