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5/18/10
CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINAR ANNOUNCED - 4/10
FDSA announces the May 2010
General Membership Meeting & Dinner and continuing education seminar "How can a cup of coffee get you a
new outlook: from Creating and Continuing Traditions to
Learning about the New Cemetery Oversight Act?" Click
here for a registration form.
4/20/10
CONTINUING EDUCATION SEMINARS ANNOUNCED - 4/10
FDSA announces the April 2010
continuing education seminars "Collections - How to go about
collections - legally; Illinois Law and the process" and
"Liability exposures facing the funeral industry in the 21st
century . . . Are you covered?". Click
here for a seminar registration form.
8/12/10
CHICAGO WHITE SOX TICKETS AVAILABLE - 3/10
FDSA is pleased to announce that
it has acquired a block of tickets for the Chicago White Sox game on
August 12, 2010. Come spend an evening with your colleagues
and cheer the Sox on to victory. Click
here for the order form.
2010 REFERENCE
GUIDE ORDER FORM AVAILABLE - 12/09
FDSA is
pleased to announce the availability of the 2010 Reference Guide
Order Form. All FDSA
Members receive a complementary edition of the Reference
Guide and Daily Calendar as a benefit of regular/full
membership. Need additional FDSA Reference Guides?
Just complete this
form and send it to FDSA along with your payment.
Each order must be
pre-paid.
FDSA PUBLISHES
2010 MUSIC LICENSING APPLICATION - 12/09
FDSA is
pleased to offer music licensing as a benefit to our members through
our partnership in the Music License Coalition. FDSA members can
become fully licensed with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC for 2010 for the
annual price of $248 per location. Click
here for a copy of the application.
COOK
COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICES ASSUME DEATH CERTIFICATE FILING DUTIES
- 8/09
Effective August 14, 2009, the Cook County
Clerk's office will assume the City of Chicago death certificate
filing duties. Please click to see the announcement
of this issue and a map
of Cook County filing locations.
ILLINOIS FISCAL YEAR 2010 FUNDING FOR FUNERAL AND BURIAL BENEFITS
- 8/09
The Illinois General Assembly and
Governor Quinn approved a budget for Fiscal Year 2010 that
appropriates $12,581,200 for Funeral and Burial Payments for those
deceased that meet the state's eligibility requirements. Special
thanks to all those FDSA members who contacted their
local representatives in support of this endeavor. For a copy
of the letter from the state notifying FDSA of this issue, click
here.
2008
ELECTRONIC DEATH CERTIFICATE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS - 1/08
The new EDRS Certificate of Death
for the state of Illinois is now available on the FDSA website in
the Members Only section. Members of the association can
access it by clicking
here.
"SMOKE
FREE ILLINOIS ACT" AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS - 1/08
The "Smoke Free Illinois
Act" can impact all funeral homes in Illinois. A copy of
the act is available to all FDSA members by clicking
here. You will be asked for your member ID and
password. If you have forgotten it, please contact the office
by e-mail at office@fdsachicago.com
or by phone at 630-980-4740. An article discussing the impact
can be found in the November-December FDSA Newsletter.
FDSA
PUBLISHES NEW BROCHURE - 7/07
Included with the
May-June 2007 Newsletter was a brochure entitled "Public Aid
Provisions for Pre-Arranged, Pre-Financed Funeral Plans".
It explains in some detail the recent substantial modifications made
by IDPA
in the regulations regarding prepaid funeral/burial plans. It
was prepared specifically for FDSA members to use with their
clients. FDSA members can click
here to see a copy of the brochure.
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