{"id":43832,"date":"2024-01-25T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d56fg8tfg.fitnews.club\/finance\/ftc-sends-warning-letters-to-funeral-homes-after-first-undercover-phone-sweep\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T21:50:12","slug":"ftc-sends-warning-letters-to-funeral-homes-after-first-undercover-phone-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d56fg8tfg.fitnews.club\/finance\/ftc-sends-warning-letters-to-funeral-homes-after-first-undercover-phone-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Sends Warning Letters to Funeral Homes After First Undercover Phone Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Trade Commission is sending warning letters to 39 funeral homes across the country after investigators conducted the agency\u2019s first undercover phone sweep and discovered<\/span><\/span><\/span> several violations of the Funeral Rule, including funeral homes that failed to provide <\/span><\/span>accurate pricing information or failed to give out price information entirely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Funeral Rule gives consumers important rights when making funeral arrangements, including requiring that <\/span><\/span>funeral homes must \u201ctell persons who ask by telephone about the funeral provider\u2019s offerings or prices any accurate information from [their] price lists\u2026. and any other readily available information that reasonably answers the question[s].\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout 2023, <\/span><\/span>investigators and other staff from the FTC\u2019s East Central Region, Northwest Region, Southeast Region, Southwest Region, Midwest Region, Western Region \u2013 Los Angeles, Western Region \u2013 San Francisco offices and the Bureau of Consumer Protection\u2019s Division of Marketing Practices placed undercover calls to more than 250 funeral homes from across the country to try to obtain price information. Staff determined that 39 funeral homes violated the Funeral Rule on these calls. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n