Number of children who have lost a parent or caregiver to Covid across the US is estimated to exceed 200,000, and advocates say assisting these kids should be a priority.
“We shouldn’t have had to do the GoFundMe,” she said of the donations she and her grandkids received before discovering the funeral reimbursement, which comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “They should have been right there after my daughter died.”
Shanna Twyman's three children, from left: Cletis Jr., who goes by CJ; Avion; and Cajhmonét, who goes by Mo.With no standardized system to capture which children have lost mothers, fathers and other important adults in their lives, Nelson added, kids can easily fly under the radar. The Covid funeral assistance program is not exclusively for grieving children. It has reached a wide swath of people who have lost family members to Covid: FEMA told NBC News it has given out over $1.8 billion in reimbursement for funeral expenses to more than 285,000 people and said it is working to raise awareness about the benefit, particularly in underserved communities.
Black and Hispanic children lost caregivers at rates nearly two times that of white children, while Asian children lost caregivers at 1.4 times that of white children, according to estimates by the. American Indian and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children carried the biggest burden, losing caregivers at about 3.5 times the rate of white children.
Other risks include abuse, neglect, substance abuse and poverty, said Susan Hillis, a senior research officer at Oxford University and the lead author of numerouson children orphaned by Covid, work she completed while with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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