FEMA offering funeral assistance for COVID-19 deaths

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming grief to many families and FEMA wants to help ease the burden on families.

Under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplement Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan, FEMA will now provide financial assistance for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred after January 20^th, 2020.

FEMA will begin to implement the COVID-19 funeral assistance next month.

Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Homes President Jeff O’Keefe Jr. goes into more detail on those who qualify and do not qualify for the FEMA assistance. “Some of the ineligible people would be those that had pre-existing burial insurance or funeral insurance that they could have used toward their loved one’s services. So, I think this is primarily going to be helping those that did not have anything already set up in place because it is a big financial burden to undertake. So, this will be basically a way of helping those families out that had nothing previously set up.”

For more information on the FEMA COVID funeral assistance you can visit bradfordokeefe.com and click on resources.