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To: Tom pursglove
Collapse of Safe Hands prepaid funeral plans
Back in 2017 both the fpa and fsa were made aware of problems with Safe Hands & the funeral plans provided to over 46000 people. These people bought these plans thinking they were doing the right thing.
The fsa & government did nothing to protect plan holders.
The company was sold to a Richard wells who transferred the funds into a trust fund run by him & his accomplices.
Policy holders of Safe Hands have been left out of pocket with no funeral & no money left to reimburse policy holders.
The government should have acted knowing the potential there could be potential problems with safe hands yet the government did nothing , we policy holders hold the government fully responsible for this failure to act to protect policy holders.
Action needs to be taken & for the government to take responsibility to compensate policy holders.
Why is this important?
We policy holders, many who are elderly, are unable to find £3500 to £4500 pounds for a replacement funeral plan or cremation.
Both dignity & the co-op have stepped up to assist safe hands policy holders & dignity covered all funerals & cremations up to the end of 31st oct , policy holders were under the impression that dignity where carry out funerals & cremations out of the goodness of their heart but policy holders have since discovered that dignity are seeking to be paid out of any money recovered by by the administrators out of over £70 odd million pound administrators only estimate that they will recover less than £10 million pound , this divided by roughly 46000 people they stand to recover between 7.5p in the pound & 15p in the pound , meaning policy holders will not receive anywhere near what they paid for their cremation or funeral.
The government should be doing more to bring those that have committed fraud to justice it won’t get our money back but to see them handed a lengthy prison sentence would go some way to seeing justice prevail.
