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It’s official. If you’ve lost a loved one due to COVID-19, you will soon be able to get reimbursed up to $7,000 for the expenses of laying a loved one to rest. Proud and thankful to have gotten this done with

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Rep. @AOC and Sen. Chuck Schumer announce funeral benefits for low-income New Yorkers who have died from COVID. "Families also are having to pay for the storage of the bodies of their own loved ones. This is wrong."

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4:48 PM · Feb 8, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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FEMA will be operating & is authorized for $2 billion as of now. Program is retroactive & will reimburse back to January 2020. Start collecting docs now. FEMA will need expense documentation (receipts/invoices), death certificate, & docs for caller ID. Includes the undocumented.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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(Sorry for the previous typo. Cold fingers! 🥶)

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👏🏻🙏🏻

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Thank you.

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This is a weird weird and kind of toxic prioritization of COVID deaths over the epidemic of deaths we have in the US from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, drug overdoses, alcoholism and despair...

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You know this policy will lead to doctors creating "COVID" cause of death forms out of compassion to help bereaved families get $7000. Why would anyone not do that? And then we have a pandemic forever. Genius.

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That’s why the Black Plague was over-reported.

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It’s cheaper to bury you than pay you monthly to stay home. We got your back.

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I get the critique if gov was a monolith and AOC wasn’t fighting for that too. It’s a disappointing reality but this saves families from poverty and debt which saves lives.

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Just NYC?