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(5) the reasonable cost of transporting the deceased from the place of death to a place of burial in a different locality if transportation of the deceased is requested by the next-of-kin and
(A) it is less costly to transport the deceased than to provide for burial at the place of death; or
(B) before death, the deceased was transported from the deceased’s last place of residence to the place of death at the expense of the department; and
(6) a processing charge equal to 10 percent of the amount of a payment a vendor makes directly to a cemetery or a provider of transportation for any reimbursable service listed in (1) — (5) of this subsection. (c) The department will make only one assistance payment for services under (a) and (b) of this section. That assistance payment will be made to
(1) the vendor that prepares the deceased person for burial or cremation; or
(2) each vendor, if the services of one vendor are necessary at the place of death and the services of another vendor are necessary at the place of burial, except that the department will only pay one vendor for a chapel service. (d) The department will, in its discretion, pay general relief assistance for the reasonable cost of necessary funeral and burial services provided outside the state for a person who was transported outside the state at the expense of the department for medical treatment and died while outside the state for treatment. If the next-of-kin requests that the deceased be returned to the state for burial, the department will pay the reasonable costs of transporting the deceased from the place of death to the place of burial. (e) The vendor shall immediately refund to the department a payment received from a resource defined in 7 AAC 47.160(b) for an expense paid under this section. (f) At least once every three years, the department will review the maximum payment level in (a) of this section for basic funeral and burial services. (g) In this section “vendor” means an individual or business that provides funeral and burial services. (Eff. 3/23/78, Register 65; am 11/8/80, Register 76; am 1/30/92, Register 121; am 6/2/93, Register 126) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.25.120 AS 47.25.300