Please give 28 days' notice before dying - Funeral Consumers Alliance

Daily Mail Online (UK)
22 February 2012

A grieving daughter has been ordered to pay £3,000 to a nursing home because she did not give a month’s notice of her father’s death.

Sue Cann, 54, was told she had incurred the costs because a period of 28 days had to be paid in the event of a resident ‘moving out or passing away’.

She received the bill the day after the funeral of her father, Kenneth, who died last month aged 79.

Before his death he had spent 17 months at the care home, for which he paid £63,000 of his own money.

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Please give 28 days’ notice before dying