The Federal Emergency Management Agency looks to ease the unexpected financial burden of COVID-19 deaths, which have reached more than 600,000 nationwide.

According to the Fall River Herald, more than $30 million has been distributed to New England states to assist with Coronavirus related funeral expenses with Massachusetts receiving $16.2 million.

People can apply for up to $9,000 to help pay funeral expenses but the process has been considered not too easy based on families emotions as well some inability to provide enough medical information that their death was of COVID-19.