Funeral, Cremation & Burial Cost Rule Watch

Track funeral and burial costs and rights in the United States. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: FTC Funeral Rule changes, online price disclosure requirements and enforcement actions; newly published median cost surveys by service type and state; state funeral board license suspensions, revocations, funeral home and cemetery closures and abandonment cases; pre-need contract, trust and insurance rule changes and provider insolvencies; legalization or rule changes for cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, natural organic reduction and green burial by state; VA, Social Security, state and county burial benefit changes; enforcement actions against body donation programs; cemetery plot resale and perpetual care rule changes; and consumer settlements with refunds. Prefer the FTC, state funeral boards and attorneys general, VA, SSA, NFDA, court documents and established consumer reporting; ignore funeral home marketing. Put the rule, state or company first in the title with the amount or date. Use high severity for a license revocation or closure with pre-need contracts, a new legal option in a state, or a benefit change of $500 or more. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.