 With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks, like unlimited talk text and three gigs of data for just $44.99, or with five gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Kentucky State Representatives Chris Harris and Daryl Owens joined Attorney General Andy Beshear at Belfrey High School today for a press conference. AP US History and AP government students, along with Belfrey senior citizens, sat in on the conference as officials explained a bill to help Kentucky consumers with unclaimed life insurance benefits. A lot of insurance companies came here to East Kentucky and saw what we call burial policies, small dollar policies that people really strained to buy, people without a lot of resources strained to buy so that their relatives wouldn't be burdened or have to pay those burial expenses when that time came. Well, these companies aren't telling the families, the beneficiaries, that grandma or granddad had a policy and they're not living up to their word. This bill holds them accountable. The bill has been prefiled, meaning it will be considered during the next legislative session and will have to pass both the House and Senate and be signed by the governor to become law. But last time around, last year, with Representative Harris pushing it, it passed the House with every vote that was cast in a bipartisan manner. This year we need to get it through both because whether you're here in East Kentucky or whether you're in downtown Louisville, a lot of folks without a lot of money bought these policies and their families aren't getting the benefit of those policies. Officials say this will affect roughly 10,000 Kentuckians. This will affect all Kentuckians who may be beneficiaries of life insurance policies that were purchased by their parents or their grandparents. A lot of those policies have gone unclaimed and those policies now are sitting in the bank accounts of big insurance companies who are sticking their heads in the sand and not paying those benefits to the beneficiaries that deserve them. The next session of the legislature begins in January. Reporting in Belfry for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.