James Contini: FEMA provides payment for COVID-19 funerals - Times Reporter

For those individuals who aren’t aware, the governmental bureau FEMA is providing fiscal assistance nether assorted national programs to individuals who person mislaid a loved 1 owed to the COVID-19 pandemic and who person incurred ceremonial expenses for that loved one.

In bid to person funds to reimburse those individuals, they indispensable use to FEMA for ceremonial outgo assistance. Those applicants indispensable conscionable the pursuing conditions:

1. The applicant indispensable beryllium a U.S. citizen; however, determination is nary request that the idiosyncratic who passed distant with COVID beryllium a US citizen.
2. The applicant’s individuality indispensable beryllium capable to beryllium verified.
3. The ceremonial expenses indispensable person been incurred aft Jan. 20, 2020.
4. The incurred ceremonial expenses indispensable not beryllium capable to beryllium paid by different means. For example, if the decedent already had prepaid ceremonial oregon burial security oregon if determination is different fiscal assistance that has been provided, past the applicant would not beryllium eligible.
5. The decease certificate of the decedent indispensable authorities that COVID-19 played a relation successful the decedent’s death.
6. The decease occurred successful the United States.

The applicant volition request to supply the decease certificate and impervious of outgo of the ceremonial expenses successful the applicant’s name. Assuming that FEMA determines that the applicant qualifies for an grant to reimburse for ceremonial expenses, the applicant volition person reimbursement for existent ceremonial costs up to $9,000 for each COVID-19 related ceremonial for which they are liable for payment.

For further accusation oregon to apply, delight spell to www.fema.gov/disaster/coronavirus/economic/funeral-assistance.

NOTE: This wide summary of the instrumentality should not beryllium utilized to lick idiosyncratic problems since flimsy changes successful the information concern whitethorn necessitate a worldly variance successful the applicable ineligible advice.

James F. Contini II is simply a certified specializer successful property readying with Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., LPA of New Philadelphia. Reach him astatine jcontini@kwgd.com.