Johtay Darwin says goodbye to his great-grandmother Lottie Cotton, who died of COVID on Dec. 31, 2020. WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will begin offering $9,000 to families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 in a massive effort to retroactively reimburse them for funeral costs.Applications for the money will open up on Monday.
This is $2,000 more than what FEMA had offered earlier this year and has no cut-off date as long as someone died of coronavirus after January 2020.
The original amount that was going to be offered was $7,000 and people had to have died only in 2020. The Washington Post notes that this is the largest program of its type ever offered by the federal government.The program is open to families regardless.