The federal government program designed to help cover funeral costs for people who have died of COVID-19 was inundated with more than 1 million calls on its launch day.

The COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Fund has money to help cover costs of COVID-related funerals in the U.S. into the foreseeable future. And while COVID-19 has claimed nearly 865,000 lives in the U.S ...

Federal program covers COVID-19 funeral costs Wanda Olson of Villa Rica, Ga., paid nearly $2,000 for her son-in-law’s cremation but was reimbursed through a FEMA program. (Mike Stewart ...

The program has paid out more than 21,000 reimbursements in California and Texas, which have both reported more than 74,000 COVID-19 deaths. Residents applied for more than $141 million in each state.

Federal program offers cash to cover COVID-19 funeral costs. Many families who are eligible for up to $9,000 in funeral cost reimbursement have yet to take advantage of the benefit.

An obscure COVID-19 benefit that covers $9,000 for a funeral still has plenty of money to give away, government says Sigrid Forberg Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 5:20 PM 3 min read ...

A federal program to reimburse funeral costs of those killed by the coronavirus began accepting applications Monday. To be eligible for the COVID-19 funeral assistance program through the Federal ...

A federal program is providing monetary relief to families who lost loved ones due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Funeral Assistance Program, which this week ...

A state program is supposed to cover funeral expenses for murdered children. Lawmakers forgot to fund it. There is hope that a solution will be found and Serabi Medina’s funeral will be covered ...

As of Dec. 6, about 226,000 people had shared in the nearly $1.5 billion that FEMA has spent on funeral costs that occurred after Jan. 20, 2020, the date of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in ...