The practical things nobody explains in the first week after a death, written out properly rather than buried in a paragraph. Every one of them is also a question you can simply telephone and ask.
Six to ten certified originals covers most estates. Here is who accepts a photocopy, who will not, and why it matters which you hand over.
Read moreYou can carry cremated remains onto an aircraft. The thing that stops people is the urn: if the screener cannot see inside it, it does not go through.
Read moreCremated remains are inurned in a national cemetery with the same honors as a casketed burial, at no cost to the family. Many families never find out.
Read moreThe famous $255 payment is real, and it is small. The entitlement worth your attention is the ongoing survivor benefit almost nobody mentions.
Read moreThis is the single most common misunderstanding we encounter, and it stops families at exactly the wrong moment.
Read moreCremation is permitted. The guidance that follows concerns what happens to the cremated remains afterwards, and it is more specific than most families expect.
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