Posted on 04/13/2021 4:07:03 AM PDT by gattaca
Death certificates may be retroactively altered to attribute death to COVID to qualify applicants for reimbursement by FEMA. "If your loved one's death certificate doesn't have COVID listed, you can have it put in," said N.Y. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.
Article Dig In Relatives of individuals who died in the "early days" of the coronavirus pandemic will be able to seek amended death certificates that show COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death in order to receive reimbursement for funeral costs under a new FEMA program, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
"Your loved one should have COVID on their death certificate, anywhere listed either as their primary or contributing cause of death," said Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, on Monday during a news conference with Schumer. "In those early days, we know that so many people didn't know what was COVID and what wasn't.
"You can go back to the institution that issued the death certificate, the hospital, the physician, etcetera, and you can have your death certificate edited in retrospect knowing what we know now about COVID. So if your loved one's death certificate doesn't have COVID listed, you can have it put in."
Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that "since September, they've been listing COVID, the problem is, as the congresswoman said, in the early days, they didn't even know what COVID was so they didn't list it, and we're working to get that corrected."
Ocasio-Cortez added that the lawmakers "are in conversations with FEMA to see what added flexibility" can be implemented around amending death certificates.
According to the current program rules on the FEMA website: "[T]he death certificate must indicate the death 'may have been caused by' or 'was likely the result of' COVID-19 or COVID-19-like symptoms. Similar phrases that indicate a high likelihood of COVID-19 are considered sufficient attribution."
The reimbursed amount maxes out at $9,000 per deceased individual and $35,500 per application.
FEMA's rules for the program specify that the death "must have occurred in the United States, including the U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia; the death certificate must indicate the death was attributed to COVID-19 and the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or a qualified non-citizen who incurred funeral expenses after Jan. 20, 2020."
The deceased individual, however, does not need to be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or qualified non-citizen.
"This is one of the first programs ... that will allow mixed status and undocumented families to get some semblance of relief after feeding this country, after cleaning our schools, after serving and holding up this community," said Ocasio-Cortez. "This community got nothing in relief, very little. I am so proud of the tireless work and pushing that it took to make sure that up to $9,000 of relief will now be available to almost every family in this country."
FEMA outlined the eligible expenses the federal government will reimburse for on their official website for the program.
The funeral reimbursement program was part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that the Democrat-led Congress passed last month.
Anddd if you had a potted plant you farmed. Winner winner chicken dinner\
I’m alive, but I might have died from Covid.
Where my money at?...
Late Term Estate Planning-
Giving to Grifters-
That is what I thought. LOL
I’m sure this will lower the number of Covid death. Also notice illegals can get in on it.
If no receipts or ID proving relative, can a statement be made? Otherwise this program could be viewed as racist. 9,000x 12 cousins and aunts = $163,512 that I’m entitled to. Poor souls all had the covid.
What about suicide during pandemic? Murder due to people going crazy staying at home? Lazy people who sat on the couch which caused a heart attack but was due to pandemic?
Despicable.
It’s all about the Benjamins.
Now the funeral homes and hospitals etal will DEMAND more money for the ‘new paperwork’ and the Admin will just go ahead and give them MORE MONEY for deaths from BeerFlue.
Then those #s will get readjusted to accommodate the money flow.
Kind of like now adays, 15 years AFTER an event they start tacking on more deaths to the calamity and have to ‘adjust’ the record books.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Well what do you know. Through out your old statistics.
I don’t get why the government chooses to contribute money to funeral expenses ONLY for people with covid or who claim they had it. Why doesn’t the government pay for funerals for people who are killed on the interstate highway system?- which was built by the government.
Next they will allow the cause to be “Covid Phobia” caused by the fear of getting Covid.
“...and you can have your death certificate edited in retrospect knowing what we know now about COVID. “
Can I have my Mom’s death certificate changed to primary cause of death as “mesothelioma “ and collect millions in compensation?
“I see dead peoples”
Just more evidence that the COVID cause of death count is exaggerated with pay outs. You don’t need lots of people in on a conspiracy. You just need lots of greedy people.
The new big thing in this so called country is to clean up when one of your relatives heads to the pearly gates. FRAUD!!!
Death certificates may be retroactively altered to attribute death to COVID to qualify applicants for reimbursement by FEMA. "If your loved one's death certificate doesn't have COVID listed, you can have it put in," said N.Y. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez... Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that "since September, they've been listing COVID, the problem is, as the congresswoman said, in the early days, they didn't even know what COVID was so they didn't list it, and we're working to get that corrected."
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.Frontpage Interview with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple: Our Culture, What's Left Of It
interviewed by Jamie Glazov [August 31, 2005]
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