Covid-19 Burial Help | FEMA.gov

Who’s eligible?

What is roofed?

What is required?

How does it work?

State-by-state totals for funeral help

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If you’re protecting the price of a Covid-19 funeral, FEMA can assist.

It’s possible you’ll qualify for as much as $9,000 per funeral in bills.

Who’s eligible?

FEMA could offer you COVID-19 funeral help if:

• You’re a US citizen, noncitizen, or ineligible citizen.
• The dying occurred in the USA, together with the US states and the District of Columbia;
• Loss of life was resulting from covid-19. And
• Within the yr You can be liable for eligible funeral bills on or after January 20, 2020

What is roofed?

FEMA could approve COVID-19 funeral help for bills similar to:

Name to be taught extra and begin an software 844-684-6333.

What is required?

US states and the District of Columbia It’s essential to present FEMA with an official dying certificates displaying that the dying occurred in the USA after January 20, 2020 and was brought on by COVID-19.

If the dying certificates was issued between January 20 and Could 16, 2020, both 1) the dying was instantly or not directly brought on by COVID-19, or 2) a signed assertion from the unique dying certificates, or itemizing COVID-19 because the trigger or reason for dying, from the jurisdiction the place the dying occurred. A health worker or investigator in This signed assertion should present extra rationalization or causation to hyperlink the reason for dying listed on the dying certificates to COVID-19.

It’s essential to present FEMA with a signed funeral house contract, bill, receipt, or different doc that features:

• Your title signifies that you’re liable for some or the entire bills
• The title of the deceased
• Detailed bills
• Proof that the bills have been incurred on or after January 20, 2020

Name to be taught extra or begin an software 844-684-6333.

How does it work?

1. To use, name 844-684-6333 toll-free, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. FEMA representatives will take your software, and multilingual providers can be found. Purposes for COVID-19 funeral help have to be accomplished with a FEMA consultant. You can’t apply on-line. It takes about 20 minutes to use and you have to present the next:
   • Your social safety quantity and date of beginning
   • The deceased individual’s social safety quantity and date of beginning
   • Your present postal handle and phone quantity
   • The handle the place the individual died
   • If the deceased has a funeral or burial insurance coverage coverage
   • When you obtain different funeral help (similar to donations, CARES Act help, state/territorial help, or help from voluntary organizations)
   • If you’d like eligible funds to be despatched by direct deposit, your checking or financial savings account switch and account quantity.
2. After you apply, FEMA provides you with an software quantity, and you may create an account on it. DisasterAssistance.gov.
3. It’s essential to submit supporting paperwork (eg, funeral house contract, invoices, receipts, dying certificates) by:
   • Add to you DisasterAssistance.gov Account
   • Fax to 855-261-3452
   • Letter To: PO Field 10001, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
4. As soon as FEMA receives all needed paperwork, it’ll take roughly 45 days to make an eligibility willpower.
5. If FEMA approves your software for COVID-19 funeral help, funds will likely be deposited into your checking account or mailed within the type of a Treasury verify, relying on the selection you made throughout your software. Funds normally arrive inside a number of days of approval, and you’ll obtain a notification letter.

State-by-state totals for funeral help

A complete of over 467,630 functions as of Could 1, 2023 3.0 billion {dollars} b 478,071 diminished. Purposes could embrace funeral bills for a couple of individual in the identical state.

State/Territory	Purposes	The quantity allowed	Variety of awards
Alabama	12,876	$70,384,951.54	10,396
Alaska	535	$1,959,402.19	406
American Samoa	33	85,658.81 {dollars}	15
Arizona	10,213	$40,233,581.62	8,156
Arkansas	6,069	$30,803,942.41	4,953
California	47,662	$240,264,137.67	37,793
Colorado	5,605	$24,526,309.71	4,544
Connecticut	5,717	$32,224,729.39	4,712
Delaware	1,824	$9,415,783.90	1,475
District of Columbia	859	$4,299,715.43	644
Florida	37,762	$170,551,949.64	30,623
Georgia	23,152	$127,829,288.43	18,680
Guam	34	$159,007.19	22
Hawaii	862	$3,857,329.34	663
Idaho	2,119	$9,670,682.64	1,762
Illinois	22,833	$127,814,719.60	18,598
Indiana	12,019	$67,846,997.85	9,850
Iowa	4,972	$29,388,960.97	4,140
Kansas	5,270	$28,561,243.20	4,400
Kentucky	11,124	$65,241,933.71	9,071
Louisiana	9,561	$51,848,098.17	7,540
Maine	1,374	$5,767,751.07	1,071
Marshall Islands	Below 10	7,148.71 {dollars}	Below 10
Maryland	10,021	$54,619,081.20	8,138
Massachusetts	10,870	$60,612,005.72	8,890
Michigan	21,023	$106,281,798.33	17,250
Minnesota	6,407	$36,033,071.48	5,313
Mississippi	8,590	$46,086,194.31	6,816
Missouri	11,796	$61,411,517.92	9,877
Montana	1,475	$6,200,244.53	1,226
Nebraska	2,637	$15,120,614.03	2,195
Nevada	5,009	$20,855,075.69	3,971
New Hampshire	1,585	$7,633,208.96	1,279
New Jersey	18,697	$105,458,097.36	15,250
New Mexico	3,774	$15,504,589.43	2,938
big apple	40,726	$224,919,296.62	32,745
North Carolina	19,512	$103,678,420.02	15,953
North Dakota	1,308	$8,219,160.64	1,107
Northern Mariana Islands	37	$101,411.99	20
Ohio	25,290	$136,372,172.83	21,060
Oklahoma	9,167	$46,710,273.01	7,491
Oregon	2,991	$10,426,236.78	2,362
Pennsylvania	27,777	$152,782,932.31	23,100
Puerto Rico	3,149	$9,440,875.51	2,376
Rhode Island	1,851	$10,567,729.03	1,548
South Carolina	12,950	$70,967,292.11	10,567
South Dakota	1,315	$7,733,532.08	1,087
Tennessee	16,469	$91,558,378.80	13,643
Texas	51,100	$267,965,827.94	41,445
US Virgin Islands	90	$450,351.82	70
Utah	2,669	$14,833,139.55	2,194
Vermont	379	$1,658,358.89	303
Virginia	13,768	$74,193,460.39	11,245
Washington	5,188	$21,459,264.58	4,073
West Virginia	4,763	$26,183,915.08	3,849
Wisconsin	9,553	$52,607,644.75	7,970
Wyoming	914	$4,149,830.67	763

Questions?

Name 844-684-6333
Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Multilingual providers can be found.
When you use a switch service, present FEMA with the distinctive quantity assigned to the service so we are able to observe up with you about your software.

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The sources beneath are for community-based organizations to share details about COVID-19 funeral help with group members. These information could be downloaded and shared on public communication websites.