New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 90 - WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM
Subchapter 8 - SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR PAYMENT OF FUNERAL AND BURIAL EXPENSES
Section 10:90-8.1 - Payment of funeral and burial expenses

(a) Payment of funeral and burial expenses may be provided for recipients of WFNJ and certain others as identified in this subchapter. Payments for such expenses are not a benefit automatically payable at death, but are a means of supplementing the resources, when available, of the deceased recipient, of his or her family, including voluntary contributions.

(b) Payment, if issued, shall be made by the chargeable county or municipal agency which occurs first in the following order: the agency which granted assistance for the month in which the person died; the agency which would, but for the death, have made the next grant of assistance; the agency which made the most recent grant of assistance; or the agency which took an application for assistance and had determined the person eligible but had issued no benefits prior to death. With respect to SSI recipients, the chargeable county agency for any burial and/or funeral claim is the county agency of the county in which the decedent was last a resident. Residence is not changed by entering a hospital but is changed by entering a residential health care facility or long-term care facility.

(c) It is recognized that county agencies may encounter situations where burials must be provided at public expense for persons who do not come within the classifications specified in 10:90-8.2. Such burials are governed by statutes unrelated to the WFNJ program. State aid cannot be used to pay for these burials. The statutes applicable to this situation include 40A:9-49.1.