Ji'nan Huimin funeral and interment in the warm and poor city
reporter Niu Yuanfei
Qingming Festival, reporters visited some urban low-income households in Ji'nan to understand how their funeral costs are rising today, and how to take care of the funeral.
in the morning of April 2nd, when the reporter and director Zhang Ruiting of the neighborhood committee of Huaiyin District, Ji'nan City, talked about the problem, she sighed: "it was a terrible problem in the last few years." In order to let the reporter understand the situation more clearly, she and the reporter came to Yiyuan District, this is the first low rent housing construction in Ji'nan, the basic living is a family of difficult living. Go into Room 102, building 1, and the owner of the house is preparing lunch in the kitchen. Zhang told reporters that the former owner of the house was Jiang Shaofa, a 76 year old lonely old man. Zhang recalled that on the same day, he received a telephone call from the district police, saying that uncle Jiang died at home.
uncle Jiang has lived alone for decades since his wife died. Zhang said that the old man spent only 300 yuan a month on his daily basis. The only furniture in the family was a single bed he slept in. "On the day of the funeral, I wanted to wear clothes for the old man, and all the clothes he had stacked under the bed had not been found. Finally, I had to wear a decent sportswear to the old man, and the zipper was bad."
uncle Jiang has no child and no daughter. Who is the old man's care? "He is a resident of our jurisdiction. It is our duty to let the old man be in peace. We all make do with the money and send the old man away." Here, the head of director Zhang: "now good, the city government implements the Huimin funeral and interment, the low insurance family" five exemption ": free of ordinary cremation fee, ordinary farewell fee, ordinary corpse delivery fee, sterilized corpse fee, one year bone ash deposit fee, an ordinary bone ash box.
came out of Yiyuan district. Reporters and Zhang director came to a doorway house near the road. The former owner of the house, Chen Da Ge, died of lymphatic cancer when he was 59 years old. Zhang told reporters that Chen is also a low insured household, and he has lost his ability to take care of himself after illness. The son quit his job to take care of his father and live. In the face of high cost of treatment, the father and son, who lived only on low insurance, had quickly spent their savings. Finally, they had to sell the original three room and one hall house and rent it in this flat. Mr. Chen's son, who had three meals a day, was almost always steamed bread, pickled vegetables and boiled water. He gave his father money to save his money. Zhang said, "this cottage is like a steamer in summer, and winter is like an ice cellar." In January 10th
2010, the son of Chen Da Ge pushed the door of the neighborhood committee and knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "I am not filial! My father has gone and I have no money to send him." Director Zhang immediately told the city's Huimin funeral policy the son of Chen Da Ge and called the service telephone of the funeral home in Ji'nan. More than an hour later, the carrier of the funeral parlour arrived at the door of Chen Da GE's house. "The whole journey is very professional and considerate." Director Zhang said.
reporter came to the Ji'nan funeral parlor. In the payment hall, the electronic screen in the middle of the hall is constantly rolling on the reduction and exemption of the low insurance family. The deputy director Ren Junmin told the reporter: "according to our service standard, the body transport is 100 yuan, the body is sterilized 300 yuan, the cremation is 450 yuan, and the ordinary ash box is 170 yuan, plus 1000 yuan. For the low insurance family, these costs are exempt.
staff of the Ji'nan Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau told reporters that in 2010, there were more than 1000 households enjoying the "five free and one delivery" policy in the city, and the cost of reduction and exemptions was about 1200000 yuan. In the
interview, some grassroots cadres believe that the urban non subsistence families and the "five guarantees households" in rural areas should also be included in the scope of "five exemption and one delivery". In Yan Zhuang village, Wu Jia Bao Town, Han Zhaoyun, Secretary of the village Party branch, gave an example to reporters: in June 2010, the villager Yan Junbao died of illness and died, only 38 years old. Yan Junbao's parents died when he was 12 years old, with his brother, Yan Junliang, and his brother, but his brother divorced five years ago and took a boy on a construction site. "A family like Yan Junbao, more than 1000 yuan burial fees can't be solved, can't afford to die."
"our town has 21 families of" Five Guarantees ", all of whom are over 70 years old. The normal medical expenses and funeral expenses after death are all borne by the village. It is hoped that the government will incorporate these people into the scope of funeral protection. The head of the office of the Social Affairs Office of Wu Jia Bao said.