Affordable Employee Group Funeral Insurance Plans

Funeral Cover That Comes With Peace Of Mind

RMA Group Funeral Plan:

This is a group funeral plan offered to companies for the benefit of their employees. The policy provides a lump-sum payment to cover costs related to a funeral. For all valid claims, we will make the payment within 48 hours after receiving all claim documents.

Employers can join as individual companies, associations, or bargaining councils.

Every employee has a story. RMA Group Funeral Cover makes sure that story ends with love and dignity.

What Is The Difference Between A Group Funeral Plan And Group Life Cover?

Most consumers don’t understand that funeral cover is to cover the immediate expenses of your funeral after death and we pay the cash as a lump sum. Life insurance is an underwritten policy, which usually means you will undergo a medical test. You must answer other questions about your medical history.

Underwritten policies are more affordable, on the whole, for healthy people. This is because the insurer knows the exact risk of insuring you. Also, the benefits of life insurance are long term and the money paid out is higher.

The ‘group’ aspect comes because you will get life cover or employee funeral cover for everyone employed in the company. You will get an aggregated risk assessment based on the risk of the group (staff) as a whole. This makes it easier and more affordable for you to get life insurance than if every employee tried to get it individually.

Cover type and pay-out amounts

Cover options

Child benefits

Are Funeral Plans Worth Buying

Funeral cover is worth buying because when the employee passes away, we pay out a lump sum to the family within 48 hours. It is well and good for an employee to have life insurance, but because that’s part of their estate, the pay-out could take months.

Our group funeral plan does not work that way. It pays out as soon as possible after you have alerted us of the deceased’s death, and you lodge a valid claim.

An employee can pass away in many unfortunate situations. To protect employees’ families financially, RMA also has other products such as Group Personal Accident Cover to insure employees against injuries sustained at work, or you could also include cover for employees who commute consistently for company business.

RMA Funeral Claim

In the unfortunate event where the employee passes away or needs to make a claim for their beneficiaries, Rand Mutual Assurance prides itself in handling the funeral claims process with compassion and in a timely manner. We are committed to making the claiming process as seamless as possible. Our valid claims are paid out within 48 hours provided that all the necessary documents are provided to our claims department.

Funeral Benefit Claim Requirements:

1. The claimant must lodge a complaint by either contacting the RMA Life Branch through telephone or via email during working hours.
   • Telephone number: 086 010 2532
   • Email: funeralclaims@randmutual.co.za
2. The Life Branch department will request the documents mentioned below to either be scanned and emailed to the Life Branch or delivered to the claimant’s nearest Life Branch.
   • RMA claim form
   • Certified copy of ID of the deceased
   • Copy of all 4 pages of the DHA 1663/1680 form
   • ID copy of the beneficiary
   • Police report completed by I/O
   • Proof of banking details for the claimant/beneficiary
   • Except for stillbirths and children younger than 1 year, the benefit becomes payable only on the death of an Assured Life on the policy.

Additional Requirements:

• If the policy has lapsed, the claim will be rejected, and the beneficiary will be notified within 10 days of the decision being made.
• All benefits are payable to the main member of the policy.
• If the main member passes away, the benefits are payable to the nominated beneficiaries.
• If there are beneficiary disputes following the death of the Main Member, the burial services group may be paid for invoiced services to expedite the burial process for an amount not exceeding the cover amount.
• If both the main member and beneficiaries pass away, RMA will pay the benefits to the person paying for the funeral.
• Claims for children younger than 1 year that have not yet been added to the policy will be paid if there is proof that the child is a biological child of the main member, adopted or a stepchild of the main member.
• Cover for stillbirth will be paid only if the attending doctor can confirm that the child had at least 26 weeks of intra-uterine existence before death. The stillborn must be the child of the main member or spouse listed on the policy.
• A claim for a willful termination of a pregnancy will be rejected.

The benefit payment for children is age-dependent and will payout according to the following table.

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