{"id":5760,"date":"2021-09-17T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:52:19","slug":"news-release-fema-providing-financial-assistance-for-covid-19-related-funeral-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/news-release-fema-providing-financial-assistance-for-covid-19-related-funeral-expenses\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: FEMA Providing Financial Assistance for COVID-19 Related Funeral Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong> \u2013 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming grief to many families. The Hawai`i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) would like to remind all residents that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides financial assistance for COVID-19-related funeral expenses incurred after January 20, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no deadline to apply and applicants will have the ability to open a case. Applicants may apply by calling 844-684-6333 (TTY: 800-462-7585) from 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. HST, Monday through Friday. Multilingual services are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At both at FEMA and HI-EMA, our missions are to help people before, during, and after disasters. We are dedicated to helping ease some of the financial stress and burden caused by the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Registration information and resources can be found at: COVID-19 Funeral Assistance | <a href=\"https:\/\/FEMA.gov\">FEMA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funeral Assistance FAQs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/disaster\/coronavirus\/economic\/funeral-assistance\/faq\">https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/disaster\/coronavirus\/economic\/funeral-assistance\/faq<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ASL Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DgvN_9m58Z0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/DgvN_9m58Z0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact:<br>Douglas Carroll<br>Public Information Officer (TA)<br>douglas.m.carroll@hawaii.gov<br>808-285-1516<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollie Reina<br>Public Relations Specialist HI-EMA<br>hollie.reina@hawaii.gov<br>808-620-5423<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU \u2013 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming grief to many families. The Hawai`i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) would like to remind all residents that the Federal Emergency Management Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"5068,4929,4917,4959,5000,4880","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[352,221,351],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-5760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-2021","category-2020-covid19","category-news-release","tag-fema-funeral-assistance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15528,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5760\/revisions\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}