The rules allow up to $3,400 in assets, but only if part is for burial expenses.

Yes, there was a small insurance policy, little more than enough to cover the burial expenses.

"Yeah, about enough to cover my burial expenses," Ralph said.

A board spokesman said the families of those women had been reimbursed for burial expenses.

In addition, the family members said, they would have had to pay burial expenses and costs for disturbing his father's grave.

Members paid fifty cents a month or $1 per family for health insurance and burial expenses.

She had no money for the burial expenses, so her mother- and father-in-law paid them.

The focus of the lawsuits and investigation has been on policies intended to cover burial expenses.

There would be $15,000 in life insurance, workers' compensation death benefits and money from the crime victims board to cover burial expenses.

The next day I sent a messenger to the eastern capital with money to contribute to the burial expenses.