By planning ahead, you can get the medical care you want, avoid unnecessary suffering and relieve caregivers of decision-making burdens during moments of crisis or grief. You also help reduce confusion or disagreement about the choices you would want people to make on your behalf.

By planning ahead, you can get the medical care you want, avoid unnecessary suffering and relieve caregivers of decision-making burdens during moments of crisis or grief. You also help reduce confusion or disagreement about the choices you would want people to make on your behalf.

Allows you to select the persons who will receive what you own when you pass away. If you don't have one in place, you cannot select the recipients of your property, and the state you reside in will determine how your property is divided.

We will gather to build a rapport with family and individualize their care and requests for their loved one

The benefit of a grief support group is the reminder that you are not alone. Grieving can be terribly lonely and isolating, especially when everyone around you seems to be “getting on with their lives.” By attending a support group, you may find that other people have experiences, feelings and struggles that are similar to your own.

SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

Some of the deceased’s family members may be able to receive Social Security benefits if the deceased person worked long enough under Social Security to quality for benefits.  You should get in touch with Social Security as soon as you can to make sure the family receives all of the benefits to which it may be entitled.  Please read the following information carefully to learn what benefits may be available.

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• A one-time payment of $255 can be paid to the surviving spouse if he or she was living with the deceased; or, if living apart, was receiving certain Social Security benefits on the deceased’s record.  If there is no surviving spouse, the payment is made to a child who is eligible for benefits on the deceased’s record in the month of death.

• Certain family members may be eligible to receive monthly benefits, including:

  • A widow or widower age 60 or older (age 50 or older if disabled);

  • A surviving spouse at any age who is caring for the deceased’s child under age 16 or disabled;

  • An unmarried child of the deceased who is younger than age 18 (or age 18 or 19 if he or she is a full-time student in an elementary or secondary school); or age 18 or older with a disability that began before age 22;

  • Parents, age 62 or older, who were dependent on the deceased for at least half of their support; and

  • A surviving divorced spouse, under certain circumstances.

The Social Security website is a valuable resource for information about all of Social Security’s programs. There are a number of things you can do online.

Identify pre- burial and entitled benefits for veterans, spouses, and children as well as facilitate the process for veterans to receive free burial benefit at Albert G. Horton. We also provide families with step-by-step guidance before and after the loss of a loved one, in addition to providing guidance on disability benefits.