As an employer, you have the power to make a significant impact on your employees' lives, both in and out of the workplace. Offering a comprehensive employee benefits package that includes Funeral Cover is one way to show your team that you care about their wellbeing, even beyond their tenure at the company.Funerals are not only emotionally taxing but also financially burdensome with your average funeral costing between R12,000 and R50,000. Expenses such as caskets, flowers, tombstones, catering, transportation and burial plots add up. In the midst of grieving, the added stress of figuring out how to cover these costs can be overwhelming for families – leaving financial burden, and pressures of delivering a ‘fitting’ send-off. The truth is that dying is expensive in South Africa. This is where providing Funeral Cover as an employee benefit can make a world of difference. By offering Funeral Cover, you are providing your employees with a means to provide for their loved ones in an already challenging moment. It means that in the event of an employee's passing, their family can focus on grieving and healing, rather than worrying about how to pay for the funeral expenses.“The sad truth is, that with the cost of living taking hold in South Africa, many employees are living pay cheque to pay cheque, without the ability to put money aside for rainy days or savings that could go towards things such as funerals,” says Jaco Oosthuizen, co-founder and MD YuLife SA. “Adequate Funeral Cover means that people are not leaving families with the burden of creating debts to cover what are considerable costs.”Investing in Funeral Cover is good for businessEven the strong and healthy want to avoid financially burdening those they leave behind – making Funeral Cover an attractive employee benefit. Although seemingly a benefit without immediate gain, it demonstrates a practical commitment to supporting your employees and their loved ones. With the cost of living crisis biting, it’s benefits like this that matter – and are key to engaging and retaining a workforce. Providing Funeral Cover can also help businesses attract top talent, and in today’s job market, it’s often these details that make all the difference when job-seekers choose whether to accept a new role.Funeral Cover with YuLifeIn a nutshell, YuLife is a group risk insurance and employee benefit provider. We offer Group Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Funeral Cover and Income Protection Insurance. The twist with YuLife as a group risk provider? Other insurers are there for people at the point of death. But beyond insurance, YuLife engages with people every day to help them live better lives. How does this insurance impact employees’ lives on a daily basis?With employee rewards and benefits beyond the insurance - holistic wellbeing. We built the YuLife app that rewards employees for building healthy habits. People can take small steps and earn reward vouchers to spend with big brands like Checkers, Dis-Chem and Engen. How? By simply walking, cycling or practising mindfulness they earn digital currency – YuCoin – that they can spend with a host of reward partners. Everything from planting trees and donating meals, to buying Footgear vouchers.The YuLife app also features the best wellbeing and digital health tools in the world: including virtual GP access and an employee assistance programme. This is insurance that inspires life.