New York (CNN Business) Boeing will pay out $100 million to help support the families and communities of people who died in two 737 Max crashes in the last year.

Boeing BA The company said the money will be given to local nonprofits and community groups that will distribute the funds to the relatives of the 346 people who died. The money will be used to support education, including college tuition or other schooling expenses for children of victims , and "hardship or living expenses for impacted families,"said in statement.

The news was not well received by the relatives of victims who have sued the company, according to attorney Bob Clifford, who represents dozens of families affected by the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia.

"This type of offer so early in the litigation process is unprecedented," Clifford said in an emailed statement. "Because there is still so much to learn about what occurred, it also appears to be disingenuous."

He criticized Boeing's offer as "vague" and added that the families are less interested in cash than getting their loved ones' remains from the crash site, which so far has been what he called an "tortuously slow" process.

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