Don't dig deep for a pre-paid funeral plan

About 1.3 million people in the UK have purchased a funeral plan, but experts warn they could become a national scandalTens of thousands of people are at risk of being left out of pocket because of a growing “national scandal” involving pre-paid funeral plans, it was claimed this week. One consumer body that has investigated the sector said it believes some companies offering these plans could be operating a “quasi-Ponzi scheme”, where they allegedly use money from new cu