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Honest Funeral · pilot report

Sample Employer

What your employees’ families experienced — funeral-pricing advocacy, free to them and neutral by design.

Total overcharge caught
$24,175

across 14families you referred — money that stayed with them, not the funeral home.

Families helped
14
Families who saved
13 of 14
Avg caught / family
$1,727
FTC issues flagged
17
Avg satisfaction
4.7 / 5
Median time to resolution
4 days

Pilot metrics

Savings measured against the metro’s median fair price (not just the family’s own quote). Benefit dollars are amounts families actually recovered (VA, SSA, insurance, county). Satisfaction share = families rating 4–5 of 5.

Median saved vs metro
$510
Avg quotes / family
3.4
Benefit $ recovered
$5,760
Rating 4–5 of 5
100%

How families used the tools

Server-recorded artifacts only — most tools run privately on the family’s own device, so these are floors, not totals. Aggregate counts; never who.

Checked a price list
86%
Tracked certificates
57%
Wrote the obituary
36%
In plain English

14 families referred through this employer completed cases, and 13 of them caught an overcharge — $24,175 total, $1,727 on average. 17 likely FTC Funeral Rule issues were flagged along the way. Families rated their experience 4.7 of 5 on average. Typical time to resolution was 4 days.

What this means for Sample Employer

  • A benefit people actually feel. The week someone loses a person is the week support is remembered — and retold. This is the help employees describe to each other in plain terms.
  • Documented benefit utilization. Evidence of real, used support — families helped and dollars kept — ready for a benefits review.
  • HR hours back.The funeral-pricing and after-death questions managers and HR field but weren’t resourced for — handled by a neutral advocate.

They caught a $2,000 overcharge on the casket and told me exactly what to say. I finally felt like someone was on my side.

Daughter of an employee · de-identified

I had no idea the death certificates were marked up. The checklist for the weeks after was the part I didn't know I needed.

Spouse · de-identified

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Aggregate, de-identified outcomes only — never an individual family’s details. Honest Funeral takes no money from funeral homes or insurers. Free to families. We never steer.

How these figures are made: every number aggregates outcomes recorded on the referred families’ own cases (headline savings measured against the family’s own original quote; satisfaction as reported by the family). Cohorts under 5 families suppress dollar and satisfaction figures so no individual family is identifiable. Tool-engagement figures count server-recorded artifacts only and understate real usage. Full methodology: honestfuneral.co/methodology.

What this is: an informational summary of aggregate family outcomes — not a benefits-compliance instrument or a survey, and it implies no endorsement by any regulator.