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Applicants start the process by calling FEMA’s funeral assistance hotline, 844-684-6333. They are then sent a letter and have 90 days to submit all of the required documentation to determine ...

Families struggling to pay for coronavirus-related funeral expenses can officially apply for financial help through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Applications for the agency's ...

her family was hopeful when the federal government announced it was providing funeral assistance funding to Americans who lost someone to the disease. Newcomer was one of nearly a million callers ...

According to a Government Accountability Office report released last month, FEMA received and processed more than 222,000 applications for funeral assistance from mid-April to late June last year ...

To help those left behind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying a maximum of $9,000 per funeral and a maximum of $35,500 per application. “The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense ...

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 ...

In the first 90 minutes of Federal Emergency Management Agency's COVID-19 funeral assistance program, the office said it got nearly 1 million calls. On April 12, FEMA launched a COVID-19 ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency approved more than 2,585 applications for newly available Covid-19 funeral assistance in the first month after the program launched -- but there are many ...