Applications Open For Seattle's COVID-19 Relief For Immigrants
SEATTLE — Applications are now open for the Seattle COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fund for Immigrants.
For the fund, Seattle set aside $7,940,000 to help support vulnerable, low-income immigrant residents who are suffering during the coronavirus pandemic, but could not receive the coronavirus stimulus check because of their immigration status. Each successful applicant will receive between $1,000 to $3,000 depending on the size of their household.
Applications to receive funding opened Thursday and run until Nov. 5. After that, the city says there will be a two-week review period. Applicants will then be notified if their requests were approved or denied between Nov. 23 and 30 before payment is distributed on December 1.
To qualify to receive funding, applicants must:
Be 18 or older.
Live in, work in, or attend school within Seattle city limits.
Have been ineligible to receive the federal CARES Act Economic Impact Payment (the coronavirus stimulus check) because of immigration status.
Be under 50 percent of the median household income in Seattle for the past nine months.
For an individual, this means making less than $29,063 between January 1 and September 30.
For a family of four, an eligible household must have made less than $41,513 in that time period.
Data collected for the applications will not be shared with government entities or the city itself. Instead, the nonprofit Scholarship Junkies will be in charge of handling personal data, the city says they have "instituted appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your information."
Applicants who do not speak English or need assistance in another language can call for assistance at one of the numbers listed here.
This article originally appeared on the Seattle Patch
