Not enough Americans taking advantage of government assistance to pay COVID-19 funeral costs

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Not enough Americans taking advantage of government assistance to pay COVID-19 funeral costs
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The federal government has provided more than $2 billion to help cover funeral costs for more than 300,000 families of people who died from COVID-19, so far.

provides up to $9,000 per funeral and covers COVID-19 related deaths since Jan. 20, 2020.

The agency has already launched a new paid ad campaign in California, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas targeted at areas with large rates of COVID-19 deaths but lower rates of reimbursement requests to help connect people to available assistance. The agency is also reaching out to community groups and local media outlets to help publicize the program.

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