The Federal Emergency Management Agency's funeral assistance program has distributed more than $1 billion to those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 since the application process began in mid-April, the agency says
Matthew Redding, deputy director of
does have a history of supporting post-disaster recovery with regard to funerals, but never on a scale like this," Redding said.More than 150,000 people nationwide have been helped so far by the funeral assistance program, which Congress established as part of its coronavirus relief legislation. The reimbursement covers the transfer of remains, burial plot, casket, clergy services, cremation and headstone, among other expenses, for deaths that occurred in the US.
hotline to begin the application process, take about 20 days to send in the documentation, which includes a death certificate and receipts for funeral costs, Redding said. has aided families with disaster-related burial costs in the past, the Covid-19 effort is the largest of its type. Previously, the agency's largest funeral assistance effort involved about 2,400 applications, Redding said. Over the past decade,
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