The FAS will pay up to $19,627 for eligible applicants who have paid for, or will pay for in the future, reasonable expenses to conduct a funeral for a primary victim.
This may include expenses such as:
- professional costs, including Funeral Director fees
- embalming
- transportation of deceased to/from cemetery/crematorium
- cemetery fees including plot and interment fees
- coffin/casket
- memorialisation costs including identification plaque
- ceremonial costs
- audio-visual/live streaming equipment
- miscellaneous costs including flowers, shroud, press notice, death certificate, clergy, or celebrant, and
- other expenses that the FAS considers reasonable to conduct a funeral.
If the primary victim is to be repatriated overseas, the FAS can pay reasonable funeral costs for:
- funeral director service fees
- burial or cremation outside of Australia
- mortuary
- coffin
- metal liner
- consulate fees, and
- the reasonable cost of air freight and transfer fee to the country of residency.
Expenses will be considered reasonable if they are appropriate for the conducting of a funeral or funeral period depending on cultural or religious rituals, and for the sole purpose of the funeral. Reasonable expenses do not include payment for alcohol for wakes or other memorials.
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