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.
Updated