Cuomo: State, Local Government Pensions Will Cover Death Benefits for Virus Victims

State and local governments' pension funds will provide death benefits for frontline government workers who have died in the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday. "We're going to make sure that every government in the state of New York provides death benefits to those public heroes who died from COVID-19 during this emergency,” Cuomo said at a Memorial Day ceremony in Manhattan, according to a transcript of his remarks. Cuomo did not provide details on how much the pensions would provide to survivors, how much the plan may cost local and state gove...