Funeral benefits

Overview The Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) is the state agency responsible for paying funeral and final disposition expenses for:  any person who was without sufficient resources or financially responsible relatives to pay for funeral and final disposition…

Form to apply for funeral expenses from DTA. English F & FD-1 Spanish F & FD-1(S) Click the "Go to Website" link below for the forms included in DTA's Online Guide.

Correction to Q and A on funeral benefits from April 2006; citizenship status of children of naturalized citizens; calculating 5 year period of ineligibility for certain qualified noncitizens.

Funeral and burial: asset limits; Food Stamps: noncountable and countable burial lots.

FS: categorical eligibility based on receipt of income-eligible child care; FS: not categorically eligible based on TANF receipt in another state; Funeral benefits-- no reimbursement; All programs: Unemployment compensation counted in gross amount.

EBT card replacement; Americorps workers not eligible for child care; funeral benefits for family cap child; Food Stamp program: Short-term disability payments as earned or unearned income; SSFSP issues.

AFDC: Terminated employment and Supplemental Payments; Funeral Benefits for persons not receiving any benefits while alive; FS: correction of underpayments; EAEDC: counting of spouse's income and assets.