After a rocky start, FEMA funeral assistance is now flowing to families of Covid-19 victims
George Harrington applied for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's funeral assistance program soon after it launched in mid-April. He sent in all the documents related to the burial of his father, George III, 80, a veteran and registered nurse who had died from Covid-19 in a nursing home a year earlier.
And then he waited. And waited. And waited.Harrington, who paid more than $11,000 for his father's funeral, called FEMA every week but the staffers couldn't tell him when he might receive the funds. The Danvers, Massachusetts, resident reached out to elected officials too as he grew increasingly frustrated.FEMA reimbursed George Harrington for the funeral costs of his father, who died of Covid in April 2020.
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