The FTC has opened an online portal where you can view the 40 questions they’re asking about revision of the Funeral Rule, and also upload your own comments to the public record:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/11/02/2022-23832/funeral-industry-practices-rule
We have 60 days to respond. Thus, January 3, 2023 is the deadline.
The national Funeral Consumers Alliance is preparing a comprehensive submission, and will share it with us (to provide helpful ideas and guidance) in a few weeks. We’ll post a link here, when available. Of course, if you know what you want to tell the FTC right away, there’s no need to wait.
Note: The PDF format of the FTC’s Proposed Regulations: Funeral Industry Practices Rule (as published in the Federal Register) may be easier to read because relevant footnotes are displayed at bottom of each column, rather than placed at the end of the long (very long!) document.
[Update 12/3/22: We created an easier-to-read overview about Updating the Funeral Rule. Start there!]
[Update 12/21/22: The FTC has changed the deadline for comments to January 17, 2023.]